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+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,31 +9,27 @@ Downloads](http://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/grand-total/soilDB)](https://cran.r-
 [](https://ncss-tech.github.io/soilDB/docs)
-Installation
-------------
+## Installation
-Get the stable version (2.6.5) from CRAN:
+Get the stable version from CRAN:
install.packages('soilDB', dependencies = TRUE)
-Get the development version (2.6.9) from GitHub:
+Get the development version from GitHub:
remotes::install_github("ncss-tech/soilDB", dependencies = FALSE, upgrade = FALSE, build = FALSE)
-Website
--------
+## Website
-- http://ncss-tech.github.io/AQP/
+-
-Citation
---------
+## Citation
Dylan Beaudette, Jay Skovlin, Stephen Roecker and Andrew Brown (2021).
soilDB: Soil Database Interface. R package version 2.6.5.
-soilDB 2.6.9
-------------
+## soilDB 2.6.9
### Notices on Database Interfaces
@@ -78,8 +74,7 @@ soilDB 2.6.9
- `ISSR800.wcs()` and `mukey.wcs()` now return a result that inherits
from `try-error` (and a message) if the Web Coverage Service fails
-Functions by Data Source
-------------------------
+## Functions by Data Source
- SDA
- [`fetchSDA`](http://ncss-tech.github.io/soilDB/docs/reference/fetchSDA_component.html)
@@ -132,8 +127,7 @@ Functions by Data Source
- SoilGrids
- [`fetchSoilGrids`](http://ncss-tech.github.io/soilDB/docs/reference/fetchSoilGrids.html)
-Miscellaneous Functions
------------------------
+## Miscellaneous Functions
- [`estimateSTR`](http://ncss-tech.github.io/soilDB/docs/reference/estimateSTR.html)
- [`STRplot`](http://ncss-tech.github.io/soilDB/docs/reference/STRplot.html)
@@ -144,8 +138,7 @@ Miscellaneous Functions
- [`code`](http://ncss-tech.github.io/soilDB/docs/reference/code.html)
- [`get_NOAA_GHCND`](http://ncss-tech.github.io/soilDB/docs/reference/get_NOAA_GHCND.html)
-Tutorials and Demonstrations
-----------------------------
+## Tutorials and Demonstrations
- [fetchKSSL](http://ncss-tech.github.io/AQP/soilDB/KSSL-demo.html)
- [SDA\_query](http://ncss-tech.github.io/AQP/soilDB/SDA-tutorial.html)
@@ -153,80 +146,11 @@ Tutorials and Demonstrations
- [SCAN/SNOTEL
Data](http://ncss-tech.github.io/AQP/soilDB/fetchSCAN-demo.html)
-Related Packages
-----------------
+## Related Packages
- [aqp](https://github.com/ncss-tech/aqp)
- [sharpshootR](https://github.com/ncss-tech/sharpshootR)
-Examples
---------
-
-### Load Soil Packages
-
- library(aqp)
- library(soilDB)
- library(sharpshootR)
-
-### Get Official Series Description Data
-
- # get morphology + extended summaries
- soils <- c('cecil', 'altavista', 'lloyd', 'wickham', 'woodbridge', 'chewacla', 'congaree')
- s <- fetchOSD(soils, extended = TRUE)
-
-### Visualize Soil-Landscape Relationships
-
- # viz of hillslope position, from SSURGO component records
- res <- vizHillslopePosition(s$hillpos, annotation.cex = 0.9)
- print(res$fig)
-
-
-
-### Make Profile Sketches
-
- par(mar = c(0, 1, 0, 4), xpd = NA)
-
- plotSPC(
- s$SPC,
- plot.order = res$order,
- cex.names = 1,
- axis.line.offset = -0.1,
- width = 0.2
- )
-
-
-
-### Identify Tabular “Siblings”
-
- s <- 'Amador'
- amador <- siblings(s, only.major = FALSE, component.data = TRUE)
-
- # limit to named soil series
- sib.data <- subset(amador$sib.data, !compkind %in% c('Miscellaneous area', 'Family', 'Taxon above family'))
-
- # get parsed OSD records
- sibs <- fetchOSD(c(s, unique(amador$sib$sibling)), extended = TRUE)
-
-### Plot Dendrograms with Taxonomic Relationships
-
- # invert colors
- par(mar = c(0, 0, 0, 0),
- fg = 'white',
- bg = 'black')
-
- SoilTaxonomyDendrogram(
- sibs$SPC,
- dend.width = 1.5,
- y.offset = 0.4,
- scaling.factor = 0.02,
- width = 0.2,
- cex.taxon.labels = 1,
- cex.names = 1
- )
-
-
-
-Dependency Graph
-----------------
+## Dependency Graph
