Package: flowcam
Type: Package
Title: Download and Animate USGS Stream-Gage Camera Images
Version: 0.1.0.9000
Authors@R: person("Connor", "Brown", role = c("aut", "cre"),
    email = "ConnorBrown1996@gmail.com",
	comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-9680-8930"))
Description: A tidy interface to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
        National Imagery Management System (NIMS) API
        (<https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/docs/nims/overview/>), which
        stores and serves images collected by stream-gage cameras at
        monitoring locations across the United States. Provides
        functions to discover cameras by NWIS site number or camera ID,
        list and filter available images by date and time, download
        images at multiple resolutions, and assemble downloaded frames
        into animated GIFs or MP4 videos. Integrates with the
        'dataRetrieval' package
        (<https://doi-usgs.github.io/dataRetrieval/>) to enrich camera
        records with watershed metadata (drainage area, hydrologic unit
        code, state, county) and to retrieve co-located streamflow,
        stage, or water-quality time series — enabling direct
        comparison of visual stream conditions with measured
        observations. API authentication uses the 'API_USGS_PAT'
        environment variable shared with 'dataRetrieval', so a single
        key covers both packages.
License: AGPL (>= 3)
URL: https://connorb.github.io/flowcam/,
        https://github.com/ConnorB/flowcam,
        https://connorb.r-universe.dev/flowcam
X-schema.org-keywords: usgs, stream gage, streamgage, hydrology, water
        data, river cameras, NIMS, NWIS, timelapse, flood monitoring,
        camera images, rstats
BugReports: https://github.com/ConnorB/flowcam/issues
Encoding: UTF-8
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
Imports: cli (>= 3.0.0), httr2 (>= 1.0.0), lifecycle, rlang (>= 1.0.0),
        tibble (>= 3.0.0)
Suggests: av, dataRetrieval (>= 2.7.17), gifski, sf, httptest2, jpeg,
        knitr, png, quarto, testthat (>= 3.0.0), withr
VignetteBuilder: quarto
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.0.0.9000
RoxygenNote: 8.0.0.9000
Config/pak/sysreqs: libssl-dev
Repository: https://connorb.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-08-11 15:48:16 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/ConnorB/flowcam
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: fcf70e185a0ead41e35246ffc53ba7613d9c655f
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-11-10 14:24:50 UTC; root
Author: Connor Brown [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9680-8930>)
Maintainer: Connor Brown <ConnorBrown1996@gmail.com>