shinyhydat

This is a shiny app to view and download historical streamflow data from a downloaded HYDAT SQLite database and real-time data using tidyhydat.

Setup

These instructions assume that you have installed R and RStudio already on your computer.

Package downloads

The first step to getting the shinyhydat up and running on your machine is to download all the packages needed by the shiny app. All of these packages are available on CRAN with the exception of tidyhydat. Type the following into R console to install all of them:

install.packages("tidyhydat")
install.packages("shinydashboard")
install.packages("leaflet")
install.packages("plotly")
install.packages("devtools")
install.packages("shinyWidgets")
install.packages("shiny")

HYDAT download

The second step to using the shinyhydat is to download a version of the HYDAT database, Environment and Climate Change Canada’s comprehensive database of historical hydrometric data. The tidyhydat package provides a convenience function to download HYDAT (be patient though this takes a long time!):

tidyhydat::download_hydat()

tidyhydat functions will automatically know where to look for HYDAT if you download HYDAT using this function.

Usage

• Open app.R file in RStudio and run the app.

License

Copyright 2017 Province of British Columbia

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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