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Parse the WaterML2 timeseries portion of a waterML2 file

Source: R/importNGWMN_wml2.R
importWaterML2.Rd

Returns data frame columns of all information with each time series measurement; Anything defined as a default, is returned as an attribute of that data frame.

Usage

importWaterML2(input, asDateTime = FALSE, tz = "UTC")

Arguments

input

XML with only the wml2:MeasurementTimeseries node and children

asDateTime

logical, if TRUE returns date and time as POSIXct, if FALSE, character

tz

character to set timezone attribute of datetime. Default is an empty quote, which converts the datetimes to UTC (properly accounting for daylight savings times based on the data's provided time zone offset). Possible values are "America/New_York", "America/Chicago", "America/Denver", "America/Los_Angeles", "America/Anchorage", "America/Honolulu", "America/Jamaica", "America/Managua", "America/Phoenix", and "America/Metlakatla"

Examples

# \donttest{
baseURL <- "https://waterservices.usgs.gov/nwis/dv/?format=waterml,2.0"
URL <- paste(baseURL, "sites=01646500",
  "startDT=2014-09-01",
  "endDT=2014-09-08",
  "statCd=00003",
  "parameterCd=00060",
  sep = "&"
)

timesereies <- importWaterML2(URL, asDateTime = TRUE, tz = "UTC")
#> GET: https://waterservices.usgs.gov/nwis/dv/?format=waterml,2.0&sites=01646500&startDT=2014-09-01&endDT=2014-09-08&statCd=00003&parameterCd=00060
# }