read.HIDROX:
Load environmental data from governmental sources
Description
This sheet describes the functions to load environmental
data from the formats used by
MARN The Ministerio del Ambiente y Recursos
Naturales.
MINAMB The Ministerio del Ambiente.
HIDROX The Argus data repository, see the references.Each Ministry used a different data format to store the
measured variables. For each
available data, a read function is taylored.
Usage
read.HIDROX(file, state = NA, altitudes = NA, serial = NA, unit = NA)
read.MARN(file)
read.MINAMB(file, state = NA, YSPLIT = 20)
Arguments
file
String containing the path to the file to load.
state
A two letter character string identifying the state,
see get.shape.state(NA)
for a complete list.
altitudes
A list containing information relative to the elevation of each station in the file.
serial
A list containing information relative to the serial of each station in the file.
unit
A character string identifying the unit of the measured data, e.g. mm/month.
YSPLIT
This variable indicates from which
decade (1900+YSPLIT) to consider between the 20th and
21st centuries.
Value
Returns a list of class Catalog with exactly two members,
see Catalog Convention.
- catalog
- The catalog, a list of each stations meta data.
- data
- The data related to the catalog, a list of
objects
ts.
Details
To explore the each data format, the package ships three
test files.
See the folder
system.file("tests",package="vetools").
References
L. Bravo, S. Abad, I. Llatas, A. Salcedo, L. Delgado,
S. Ramos, K. Cordova.
Hidrox: Repositorio de Datos Hidroclimáticos para la
Gestión de Riesgos Epidemiológicos y Ambientales.
2012. ISBN:987-9-8012596-2-6.