Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

StreamCatTools 0.12.02026-10-02

  • Replaced sc_get_comid with a new REST service implementation using the EPA NHDPlus NP21 simplified catchments layer.
  • Added a count_metrics helper function
  • Added MIT license for package
  • Refactored sc_get_data and lc_get_data slightly for improved functionality (based on https://github.com/pauldzy/StreamCatTools)

StreamCatTools 0.11.02026-05-14

  • Adds new lc_get_watershed function to return a lake watershed as an sf feature for a LakeCat (NHDPlusV2 Waterbody) COMID from an S3-hosted, HUC2-partitioned GeoParquet dataset
  • Uses optional HUC2 query as well as retries, multi-threading and duckdb to speed up retrieval of spatial data from AWS S3 bucket

StreamCatTools 0.10.02026-01-30

  • Adds new functions sc_get_nni() and lc_get_nni() for ease of access to National Nutrient Inventory data in StreamCat
  • Adds new functions sc_plot() and lc_plot for plotting nitrogen and phosphorus budgets for watersheds
  • Adds a new article describing functions for plotting National Nutrient Inventory data in StreamCat

StreamCatTools 0.9.12025-10-25

  • Handles a web service being down in testing using testthat::skip_on_cran()

  • Converts most vignettes to articles and adds one new Start Here vignette2025-10-25

    StreamCatTools 0.9.12025-10-25

  • Handles a web service being down in testing using testthat::skip_on_cran()
  • Converts most vignettes to articles and adds one new Start Here vignette

StreamCatTools 0.9.02025-10-15

  • Addresses CRAN error generated by tests that is
  • Adds tryCatch handling for functions calling web services in order to fail gracefully and not produce errors
  • Adds documentation to vignettes for two new functions added to the package

StreamCatTools 0.8.02025-10-09

  • Added code coverage to the package
  • Added two new functions - sc_get_metric_names and lc_get_metric_names to make metric names and descriptions more searchable and slightly updated parameters in both sc_get_params and lc_get_params functions
  • Both sc_get_data and lc_get_data now accept vectors as well as comma- separated strings for the metric, state, county and region parameters

StreamCatTools 0.7.02025-09-15

  • Updated both sc_get_data and lc_get_data to pass parameters in POST request body rather than header, providing ability to pass lengthy lists of COMIDS to those requests
  • Fixed a bug in package tests that was causing an error when running testthat

StreamCatTools 0.6.02025-09-02

  • Added functionality in sc_get_data and lc_get_data to accommodate large numbers (e.g. > 700) COMIDs in header for POST request

StreamCatTools 0.5.0

  • Overhauled sc_get_data and lc_get_data functions to be able to pull all metrics from StreamCat or LakeCat for an area of interest
  • Updated sc_get_data and lc_get_data to be able to pass hundreds of COMIDs at a time as a function parameter and not error out in call to server
  • Updated sc_get_params and lc_get_params to now return variable information, as well as just metric names and full names, and return tables of state and county abbreviations, names and FIPS codes

StreamCatTools 0.4.0

  • Overhauled all functions to use the new api.epa.gov endpoints for StreamCat described in swagger documentation
  • Streamlined sc_get_data and lc_get_data requests with httr2
  • Adopted functionality in all package functions to use the Oracle ORDs Database REST API rather than previous JAVA REST service

StreamCatTools 0.3.0

  • Incorporated POST requests in httr2 requests to deal with many COMIDs in requests
  • Added documentation to vignette for working with LakeCat data in the package

StreamCatTools 0.2.0

  • Added LakeCat functions to the package:
    • lc_get_data
    • lc_get_params
  • Changed lifecycle to stable

StreamCatTools 0.1.1.9002

  • Fixed sc_get_data to pass COMIDs to function more robustly
  • Added sc_nlcd helper function to more easily grab NLCD based metrics from StreamCat
  • Updated package documentation

StreamCatTools 0.1.1.9001

  • API is publicly released and the package works now for everyone (not just those inside EPA network)

StreamCatTools 0.1.1.9000

  • Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.