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0.1 Installing and loading StreamCatTools

To install, you can install from CRAN:

install.packages("StreamCatTools")

Or you can install from GitHub:

library(devtools)
install_github('USEPA/StreamCatTools')

After installing load the library

library(StreamCatTools)

0.2 Background

The StreamCatTools package was designed to simplify the use of StreamCat data in R, leveraging the new API for StreamCat.

1 Vignettes in StreamCatTools

There are three additional vignettes in StreamCatTools that are available on our website here under the “Articles” tab:

1. Introduction

• An overview of the basic fucntionality of the package

2. LakeCat

• An overview of accessing data for lakes within the package and functions to do so

3. Applications

• A more in depth walk through with specific use-case examples and demonstrations

These vignettes cover some of the core functions (and arguments within those functions) in StreamCatTools. Help files for a particular function are viewable by running ?function_name after loading StreamCatTools. For example, to learn more about the sc_get_data() function, run ?sc-get_data.

2 Citation information

If you use StreamCatTools in your work, please cite it. You can view the most recent citation by running

citation("StreamCatTools")
#> To cite package 'StreamCatTools' in publications use:
#> 
#>   Weber M (????). _StreamCatTools: 'StreamCatTools'_. R package version
#>   0.9.1, <https://usepa.github.io/StreamCatTools/>.
#> 
#> A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
#> 
#>   @Manual{,
#>     title = {StreamCatTools: 'StreamCatTools'},
#>     author = {Marc Weber},
#>     note = {R package version 0.9.1},
#>     url = {https://usepa.github.io/StreamCatTools/},
#>   }