nrfapy 0.5

A simple package from getting data from the national river flow archive.

nrfapy

A collection of tools for exploring the national river flow archive https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/.

• Free software: MIT license

• Documentation: https://nrfapy.readthedocs.io.

Features

• Gets national river flow archive datasets and loads them into pandas dataframes

• Explanation of the dataset is here: https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/

History

0.1 (2024-01-20)

• Initial coding by Simon Moulds, packaged by Simon Mudd

• Initial release on pypi

• Then Simon Mudd had to delete the release because he was calling it NFRA instead of NRFA, mainly because nfrapy sounds a bit like frappuchino and that suggests a clever logo. Simon Moulds had to point out to the disappointed Muddpile that this was the wrong acronym.

• Basic functionality: simply calls the NRFA API and gets time series data

• A command line script is included: nrfa_get_ts

0.2 (2024-02-01)

• Update so that the time column is always parsed as a datetime (S Moulds)

• Added flag that allows the time to be used as an index, which is useful for some dataframe operations (D Golberg)

• Added an option to feed the timeseries function a list of strings that all fetching then concatenaiton of different timeseries (D Goldberg)

0.3 (2024-02-02)

• Added some code to make sure the package works on pandas versions < 2.0.0 (SMM)

0.4 (2024-02-02)

• For utterly crazy reasons, I need to make this package resiliant against cases where the pandas version using .__version__ is different than that from pkg_resources

0.5 (2024-02-23)

• pandas concat in get_ts() needs to be called with the axis kwarg set to 1, otherwise strange behavior