The UK CEH Lake Portal is a GIS-based inventory of information about more than 40000 lakes across the UK. The information available for each lake varies, but includes basic physical description, typology and other information.
The uklakes package allows you to retrieve a summary of the lake information for a lake or series of lakes, based on the lake wbid (waterbody id) number. It does this by responsibly webscraping the information (using the polite package) from the webpage of each lake as the website does not provide an API or any easy way to extract the data returned. You can also search for lake wbid values based on strings in the lake name to determine the wbids to search for.
Information on the general physical characteristics, typology, chemistry and connectivity metrics are retrieved. Biology, Land cover and water quality information are not. For details of the information available, see the UK Lakes Portal Website, or the output reference list.
Use of the package implies acceptance of the Terms of Use available here.
Installation
You can install the current version of uklakes from GitHub with:
# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("robbriers/uklakes")Details of use
See the Get started vignette for how to use the package.
Code of Conduct
Please note that the uklakes package is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.