Closed jennymurphy closed 3 years ago
Hmm....what I suspected was not actually the case... What is giving the warnings are converting the begin_date and end_date. There are dates in those column that are "1828" or "1983-05" and the code is expecting some combinations of years, months, and days. So right now you are getting NA's in those columns the dates don't have all 3 components (year, month, date).
In the "user-friendly-functions", there is a way to say convertType = FALSE
(which would not try to convert the text to date). I'll think abut if there's a clear way to include that in the functions who use ...
. In the meantime, for this particular query, you could:
url <- "https://waterservices.usgs.gov/nwis/site/?seriesCatalogOutput=true&huc=08&format=rdb"
data_character <- importRDB1("https://waterservices.usgs.gov/nwis/site/?seriesCatalogOutput=true&huc=08&format=rdb", convertType = FALSE)
So.... bug/enhancement:
Add convertType option to the functions whose arguments are ...
That makes sense. Thanks so much.
I'm going to leave this open to remind myself of adding the convertType option
Hi! I used the following line of code to retrieve sample information about a particular HUC:
wq1 <- whatNWISdata(huc = "08")
And I got this --> Warning messages: 1: 40 failed to parse. 2: 5 failed to parse.
I'm not really sure what these are telling me. Did something "go wrong" during the retrieval? Any insight on these messages? Thanks