USGS R Package Development: 10-year Reflections
summary
A USGS R package called dataRetrieval (first commits 2012) standardizes access to surface‑water gauge heights and discharge, groundwater well records, water‑use estimates and water‑quality chemistry, removing the prior data bottleneck. It’s maintained with git, unit testing and reproducible practices, powers Shiny, Quarto and plumber deployments on Posit Connect, has ~186,000+ downloads, sparks community bug fixes and contributions, and now also ships Python and Julia wrappers.
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