Retrieve station metadata — hc_read

Returns location and period-of-record information for all stations available across registered data sources. Data sources that do not publish station metadata are skipped with a warning.

Usage

hc_read_stations(source = NULL)

Arguments

source: Optional single character string naming the data source to query directly. When NULL (default) all registered data sources are queried. See hc_list_sources() for available names.

Value

A tibble with columns station_id (chr), station_name (chr), provider_name (chr), longitude (dbl), latitude (dbl), elevation_m (dbl), period_start (Date), period_end (Date), and notes (list).

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
try(hc_read_stations())
try(hc_read_stations(source = "cehq"))
} # }