hydroscoper

An R interface to the Greek National Data Bank for Hydrometeorological Information.
https://github.com/ropensci/hydroscoper

Category: Hydrosphere
Sub Category: Freshwater and Hydrology

Keywords

climate greece hydrology hydrometeorology hydroscope meteorological-data meteorological-stations peer-reviewed r r-package rstats tidy-data time-series water-resources

Keywords from Contributors

precipitation genomics routing topic-modeling climate-data

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R interface to the Greek National Data Bank for Hydrometeorological Information

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ropensci/hydroscoper
• Owner: ropensci
• License: other
• Created: 2017-12-13T08:33:53.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-10-21T04:25:41.000Z (2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-10-22T03:53:47.621Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: climate, greece, hydrology, hydrometeorology, hydroscope, meteorological-data, meteorological-stations, peer-reviewed, r, r-package, rstats, tidy-data, time-series, water-resources
• Language: R
• Homepage: https://docs.ropensci.org/hydroscoper
• Size: 6.51 MB
• Stars: 14
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Releases: 11
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.Rmd
  • Changelog: NEWS.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Codemeta: codemeta.json

README.Rmd

          ---
title: hydroscoper
output: github_document
editor_options: 
  chunk_output_type: inline
---


```{r, echo=FALSE, message=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>",
  fig.path = "man/figures/README-"
)

chk_online <- FALSE

# helper function to check if a sub-domain is online
online <- function(url = "kyy.hydroscope.gr") {
  
  # test the http capabilities of the current R build
  if (!capabilities(what = "http/ftp")) return(FALSE)
  
  # test connection by trying to read first line of url
  test <- try(suppressWarnings(readLines(url, n = 1)), silent = TRUE)
  
  # return FALSE if test inherits 'try-error' class
  !inherits(test, "try-error")
}

# check if sub-domains are online
chk_online   <- online()

```

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`hydroscoper` is an R interface to the  Greek National Data Bank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information,
*Hydroscope*. For more details checkout the package's [website](https://docs.ropensci.org/hydroscoper/) and the vignettes:

 * [An introduction to `hydroscoper`](https://docs.ropensci.org/hydroscoper/articles/intro_hydroscoper.html) with details about the Hydroscope project and the package.
 * [Using `hydroscoper`'s data sets](https://docs.ropensci.org/hydroscoper/articles/stations_with_data.html) with a simple example of how to use the package's internal data sets.
 
## Installation

Install the stable release from CRAN with:

```{r cran_installation, eval = FALSE}
install.packages("hydroscoper")
```

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

```{r gh-installation, eval = FALSE}
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("ropensci/hydroscoper")
```

## Using hydroscoper

The functions that are provided by `hydroscoper` are:

* `get_stations, get_timeseries, ..., etc.` family functions, to retrieve tibbles with Hydroscope's data for a given data source.
* `get_data`, to retrieve a tibble with time series' values.  
* `hydro_coords`, to convert Hydroscope's points' raw format to a tibble.
* `hydro_translate` to translate various terms and names from Greek to English.

The data sets that are provided by `hydroscoper` are:

* `stations` a tibble with stations' data from Hydroscope.
* `timeseries` a tibble with  time series' data from Hydroscope.
* `greece_borders` a tibble with the borders of Greece.

## Example

This is a minimal example which shows how to get the station's *200200* precipitation time series *56*  from the *kyy* sub-domain.

Load libraries and get data:

```{r load_libraries, eval = chk_online}
library(hydroscoper)
library(tibble)
library(ggplot2)

ts_raw <- get_data(subdomain = "kyy", time_id = 56)
ts_raw
```

Let's create a plot:

```{r plot_time_series, eval = chk_online}
ggplot(data = ts_raw, aes(x = date, y = value))+
  geom_line()+
  labs(title= "30 min precipitation for station 200200",
       x="Date", y = "Rain height (mm)")+
  theme_classic()
```

## Meta

* Bug reports, suggestions, and code are welcome. Please see [Contributing](https://github.com/ropensci/hydroscoper/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
* License:
    + All code is licensed MIT.
    + All data are from the public data sources in `http://www.hydroscope.gr/`.
* To cite `hydroscoper` please use:
```
Vantas Konstantinos, (2018). hydroscoper: R interface to the Greek National Data Bank for
Hydrological and Meteorological Information. Journal of Open Source Software,
3(23), 625 DOI:10.21105/joss.00625
```
or the BibTeX entry:
```
@Article{kvantas2018,
author = {Konstantinos Vantas},
title = {{hydroscoper}: R interface to the Greek National Data Bank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information},
doi = {10.21105/joss.00625},
year = {2018},
month = {mar},
publisher = {The Open Journal},
volume = {2},
number = {23},
journal = {The Journal of Open Source Software}
}
```

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