Get the stable version (2.6.13) from CRAN:

install.packages('soilDB', dependencies = TRUE)

Get the development version (2.6.14) from GitHub:

remotes::install_github("ncss-tech/soilDB", dependencies = FALSE, upgrade = FALSE, build = FALSE)

• http://ncss-tech.github.io/AQP/

Dylan Beaudette, Jay Skovlin, Stephen Roecker and Andrew Brown (2021). soilDB: Soil Database Interface. R package version 2.6.13. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=soilDB

• all NASIS queries now use {DBI}, tested to work with {odbc} or {RSQLite} drivers; replacing {RODBC}
  • Install required R packages with install.packages(c("DBI","odbc","RSQLite"), dependencies = TRUE)
• new methods for connecting to NASIS and querying NASIS data allow for dsn argument to specify a local “static” SQLite file containing NASIS tables.
  • Default argument dsn = NULL uses "nasis_local" ODBC connection to a local NASIS SQL Server instance

• SDA_query() returns a try-error for queries with invalid syntax or on network error; empty results are an empty data.frame()

• SDA_spatialQuery() can return Soil Survey Area sapolygon data

• fetchSDA_spatial() can return STATSGO gsmmupolygon or Soil Survey Area sapolygon data; and can join to the legend table

• Added several new SDA query methods based on ssurgoOnDemand by Jason Nemecek and Chad Ferguson:

  • get_SDA_property(), get_SDA_interpretation(), get_SDA_muaggatt(), get_SDA_hydric(), get_SDA_pmgroupname(), get_SDA_coecoclass()

• AKSite, Montana RangeDB, and PedonPC 6.x get and fetch methods now use {DBI}+{odbc}

• ISSR800.wcs() and mukey.wcs() now return a result that inherits from try-error (and a message) if the Web Coverage Service fails

• SDA
  • fetchSDA
  • fetchSDA_spatial
  • SDA_query
  • SDA_spatialQuery
  • “SSURGO On Demand” Queries
    • get_SDA_hydric
    • get_SDA_interpretation
    • get_SDA_muaggatt
    • get_SDA_pmgroupname
    • get_SDA_property
    • get_SDA_coecosite
• SSURGO Local Geodatabases
  • fetchGDB
• ROSETTA
  • ROSETTA
• SSURGO/KSSL via SoilWeb
  • fetchKSSL
  • fetchOSD
  • siblings
  • OSDquery
  • seriesExtent
  • taxaExtent
  • mukey.wcs
  • ISSR800.wcs
• NASIS WWW interface
  • parseWebReport
  • fetchNASISWebReport
• SCAN/SNOTEL
  • fetchSCAN
  • SCAN_SNOTEL_metadata
• Henry Mount Soil and Water Database
  • fetchHenry
• NASIS local database
  • fetchNASIS
  • NEW: Argument dsn to specify path to connect to alternate (SQLite) data sources with NASIS schema
  • NEW:dbConnectNASIS (alias NASIS()) - create a DBIConnection to local NASIS database
  • NEW:dbQueryNASIS - query NASIS local database (and close connection with close=TRUE)
  • NEW:createStaticNASIS - create list of NASIS tables or write to SQLite
• SoilGrids
  • fetchSoilGrids

• estimateSTR
• STRplot
• KSSL_VG_model
• simplfyFragmentData
• simplifyColorData
• uncode
• code
• get_NOAA_GHCND

• fetchKSSL
• SDA_query
• fetchOSD
• SCAN/SNOTEL Data

• aqp
• sharpshootR