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The wikilake package provides functions to scrape the metadata tables from lake pages on Wikipedia.

Installation

Stable release from CRAN

install.packages("wikilake")

Development version

devtools::install_github("jsta/wikilake")

Usage

library(wikilake)
#> Loading required package: maps
# metadata only, see units of numeric fields with wikilake::unit_key_()
lake_wiki("Lake Mendota")
#> Retrieving data from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mendota
#>           Name                             Location                    Type
#> 1 Lake Mendota Dane County, Wisconsin,United States Natural freshwater lake
#>   Primary inflows Primary outflows Catchment area Basin countries Max. length
#> 1    Yahara River     Yahara River            562   United States        9.04
#>   Max. width Surface area Average depth Max. depth Water volume Residence time
#> 1       6.61     39.41654          12.8       25.3           NA            4.5
#>   Shore length1 Surface elevation                              Frozen     Lat
#> 1          34.8               259 December 20 (average freezing date) 43.1066
#>        Lon
#> 1 -89.4247
# use the clean = FALSE argument to get raw data
# (i.e. avoid parsing of numeric fields)
lake_wiki("Lake Mendota", clean = FALSE)
#> Retrieving data from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mendota
#>           Name                             Location                    Type
#> 1 Lake Mendota Dane County, Wisconsin,United States Natural freshwater lake
#>   Primary inflows Primary outflows Catchment area Basin countries Max. length
#> 1    Yahara River     Yahara River     562 [km^2]   United States   9.04 [km]
#>   Max. width Surface area Average depth Max. depth             Water volume
#> 1  6.61 [km] 9740 [acres]      12.8 [m]   25.3 [m] 500 million cubic metres
#>   Residence time Shore length1 Surface elevation
#> 1    4.5 [years]     34.8 [km]           259 [m]
#>                                Frozen     Lat      Lon
#> 1 December 20 (average freezing date) 43.1066 -89.4247
# pretty printing metadata
name values_numeric values_raw
Name Lake Mendota Lake Mendota
Location Dane County, Wisconsin,United States Dane County, Wisconsin,United States
Type Natural freshwater lake Natural freshwater lake
Primary inflows Yahara River Yahara River
Primary outflows Yahara River Yahara River
Catchment area 562 562 [km^2]
Basin countries United States United States
Max. length 9.04 9.04 [km]
Max. width 6.61 6.61 [km]
Surface area 39.4165392201752 9740 [acres]
Average depth 12.8 12.8 [m]
Max. depth 25.3 25.3 [m]
Water volume NA 500 million cubic metres
Residence time 4.5 4.5 [years]
Shore length1 34.8 34.8 [km]
Surface elevation 259 259 [m]
Frozen December 20 (average freezing date) December 20 (average freezing date)
Lat 43.1066 43.1066
Lon -89.4247 -89.4247
# metadata + map
lake_wiki("Gull Lake (Michigan)", map = TRUE)
#> Retrieving data from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gull_Lake_(Michigan)

#>        Name                                            Location
#> 1 Gull Lake Kalamazoo / Barry counties, Michigan, United States
#>   Primary outflows Basin countries Surface area Max. depth Surface elevation
#> 1   Gull Creek [1]   United States            8         34               268
#>      Lat     Lon
#> 1 42.399 -85.411
lake_wiki("Gull Lake (Michigan)", map = TRUE, database = "usa")
#> Retrieving data from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gull_Lake_(Michigan)

#>        Name                                            Location
#> 1 Gull Lake Kalamazoo / Barry counties, Michigan, United States
#>   Primary outflows Basin countries Surface area Max. depth Surface elevation
#> 1   Gull Creek [1]   United States            8         34               268
#>      Lat     Lon
#> 1 42.399 -85.411
lake_wiki("Lake Nipigon", map = TRUE, regions = "Canada")
#> Retrieving data from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nipigon

#>           Name Location Lake type Primary outflows Catchment area
#> 1 Lake Nipigon  Ontario   Glacial    Nipigon River          25400
#>   Basin countries Surface area Average depth Max. depth Water volume
#> 1          Canada         4848          54.9        165     2.48e+11
#>   Shore length1 Surface elevation   Lat   Lon
#> 1          1044               260 49.83 -88.5
lake_wiki("Cass Lake (Michigan)", map = TRUE, database = "state", regions = "Michigan")
#> Retrieving data from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Lake_(Michigan)

#>        Name                 Location Basin countries Surface area Max. depth
#> 1 Cass Lake Oakland County, Michigan   United States     5.179997         37
#>   Surface elevation    Lat     Lon
#> 1               283 42.606 -83.365