rivr: An R package for Open Channel Hydraulics

This package is designed as an educational tool for students and instructors of undergraduate courses in open channel hydraulics. Functions are provided for computing flow and channel geometry, normal and critical depths, gradually-varied water-surface profiles (e.g. backwater curves) and unsteady flow (e.g. flood wave routing).

UPDATE 4/2/2015

Version 0.9.2 now on CRAN! This version improves error messages and clarifies some of the documentation.

UPDATE 2/22/2015

This package is on CRAN now! The binaries should be available soon, but if you get an error try install.packages("rivr", type = "source").