soilDB: Soil Database Interface

A collection of functions for reading soil data from U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS) and National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS) databases.

Version:	2.8.13
Depends:	R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports:	grDevices, graphics, stats, utils, methods, aqp (≥ 2.1.0), data.table, DBI, curl
Suggests:	jsonlite, xml2, httr, rvest, odbc, RSQLite, sf, wk, terra, raster, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat
Published:	2025-09-27
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.soilDB
Author:	Dylan Beaudette [aut], Jay Skovlin [aut], Stephen Roecker [aut], Andrew Brown [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Andrew Brown <andrew.g.brown at usda.gov>
BugReports:	https://github.com/ncss-tech/soilDB/issues
License:	GPL (≥ 3)
URL:	https://github.com/ncss-tech/soilDB/, https://ncss-tech.github.io/soilDB/, https://ncss-tech.github.io/AQP/
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-US
Citation:	soilDB citation info
Materials:	NEWS
CRAN checks:	soilDB results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	soilDB.html , soilDB.pdf
Vignettes:	Mapping Dominant Ecological Sites using SSURGO Data (source, R code) fetchNASIS(from='pedons') Columns (source, R code) Local SSURGO Databases (source, R code) Map Unit Key Grids and Thematic Maps of Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) Data (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	soilDB_2.8.13.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: soilDB_2.8.13.zip, r-release: soilDB_2.8.13.zip, r-oldrel: soilDB_2.8.13.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): soilDB_2.8.13.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): soilDB_2.8.13.tgz, r-release (x86_64): soilDB_2.8.13.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): soilDB_2.8.13.tgz
Old sources:	soilDB archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports:	sharpshootR
Reverse suggests:	apsimx, aqp, SoilTaxonomy

Linking:

Please use the canonical form https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=soilDB to link to this page.