R Software Packages

Ditwah

The package Ditwah tidy datasets related to rainfall, river-level data, flood alert level data, 3-hour weather station data, data from weather reports for 24 hour period, flood progression data. The weather data were obtained from the Department of Meteorology, Sri Lanka. The real time water level data were extracted from the “Realtime Water Level in Major Rivers” dashboard developed by Hydrology and Disaster Management Division, Irrigation Department. River water level and flood warning data and situation data were obtained from the Disaster Management Centre. The data were extracted through web scraping and then the data were cleaned and converted into tidy formats

To install the package

install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("thiyangt/Ditwah")
library(Ditwah)

Link to package repository: https://github.com/thiyangt/Ditwah

ditwahLandslide

This package ditwahLandslide provides curated early-warning data on landslides in Sri Lanka during the Ditwah storm, scraped from the Disaster Management Centre, Sri Lanka. It includes a structured, machine-readable, analysis-ready tidy dataset designed to support statistical workflows, education, and research.

install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("thiyangt/ditwahLandslide")
library(ditwahLandslide)

Link to package repository: https://thiyangt.github.io/ditwahLandslide/