An Excel Web query will also do what you want. From an Excel Workbook create a web query and link it to the USGS website. You can schedule downloads or the query will download data up-to-date everytime the workbook is open.
Felipe D. Carrillo Supervisory Fishery Biologist Department of the Interior US Fish & Wildlife Service California, USA --- On Wed, 7/29/09, stephen sefick <ssef...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: stephen sefick <ssef...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [R] USGS stream flow data automatic download R > To: thomas.ad...@noaa.gov > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 6:23 PM > Instantaneous Data, mean flow data > could be a start. That would be > wonderful if you would send it to me. > > Stephen Sefick > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:20 PM, <thomas.ad...@noaa.gov> > wrote: > > Stephen, > > > > I don't have anything or know of anything in R to do > this. But, we download USGS streamflow data routinely. I > have a Perl script that will reformat the downloaded data > into a R-importable format (basically two columns date/time > flow value). Are you interested in mean daily or > instantaneous streamflow data? > > > > Regards, > > Tom > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: stephen sefick <ssef...@gmail.com> > > Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:03 pm > > Subject: [R] USGS stream flow data automatic download > R > > > >> I don't even know if this is the right place to > ask this question. I > >> would like to download USGS stream gauging data > for a couple of gauges > >> on a daily basis- save the files to .csv files and > append the nest > >> days time series to this. Is there a way to do > this automatically in > >> R? > >> thanks, > >> > >> -- > >> Stephen Sefick > >> > >> Let's not spend our time and resources thinking > about things that are > >> so little or so large that all they really do for > us is puff us up and > >> make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have > not exhausted the > >> annoying little problems of being mammals. > >> > >> > -K. Mullis > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-help@r-project.org > mailing list > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > >> guide.htmland provide commented, minimal, > self-contained, > >> reproducible code. > >> > > > > > > -- > Stephen Sefick > > Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about > things that are > so little or so large that all they really do for us is > puff us up and > make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not > exhausted the > annoying little problems of being mammals. > > > > -K. Mullis > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org > mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, > reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.