RHydro

Introduction

RHydro is a set of topographical analysis tools that are not dissimilar to the ArcGIS ArcHydro toolbox (but more modest in scope). They are originally based on the DTM-ANALYSIS program from the hydrology group at Lancaster University.

For a fully documented example, see the Digital terrain analysis with RHydro page.

RHydro is experimental software and comes without any warranty. Currently it does not do much input checking but should be fairly safe if used correctly.

Download

• Windows

• MacOSX

• Linux

Installation

Installation can be done via the packages menu (install local packages from zip files) or directly from the command line with:

 install.packages("RHydro_0.1.zip", repos=NULL)

Loading

Once in R you need to load the package before you can use it:

  library(RHydro)

Function overview

Full documentation is provided in the package, and can be opened with:

  help.start()

The current version contains the following functions:

• atb()
• flowlength()
• outlet()
• river()
• sinkfind()
• subcatch()