SanFranBeachWater

SanFranBeachWater is a little R package that downloads the Beach Water Quality Monitoring Program data that the the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission maintain here. The data can be downloaded in raw form, or tables for individual beaches can be downloaded.

Installation

install.packages("SanFranBeachWater")

Usage

Get the data for China Beach:

library(SanFranBeachWater)

san_fran_china_beach()
#>          Date Total_Coliform E_Coli Entero_coccus
#> 1  2017-06-05             20     NA            NA
#> 2  2017-05-30             20      0             0
#> 3  2017-05-22             41     10            10
#> 4  2017-05-15             10      0             0
#> 5  2017-05-08             30      0             0
#> 6  2017-05-01              0      0             0
#> 7  2017-04-24            171      0             0
#> 8  2017-04-17            110     20             0
#> 9  2017-04-10            110      0             0
#> 10 2017-04-03             41     20             0
#> 11 2017-03-27             98      0            10
#> 12 2017-03-24            132     20             0
#> 13 2017-03-20              0      0             0

Or alternatively, just get the status of the beach ("Open" or "Closed"):

san_fran_windsurfer_circle(status = TRUE)
#> [1] "Current Beach Status: Open"

Sweet! 🏖️