MetFns (version 1.0)

filter.country: Selection of visual meteor data by country

Description

Selects data for a given visual meteor dataset and specified country.

Usage

filter.country(data, country)

Arguments

data

data frame consisting of visual meteor data (rate or magnitude data).

country

character string specifying the name of the country.

Value

• filter.country returns data frame with the same number of columns as argument data, containing observations corresponding to the specified country.

Details

List of the countries can be found in the data frame vmdbsite. Data selection is performed using filter.site which filters data by codes of all sites belonging to the specified country.

References

http://www.imo.net/data/visual Rendtel J. and Arlt R., editors (2008). IMO Handbook For Meteor Observers. IMO, Potsdam.

See Also

filter

Examples

## select visual meteor data for the year 2009 from Serbia

## rate data for the year 2009
data(rate09)
filter.country(rate09,country="Serbia")

## magnitude data for the year 2009
data(magn09)
filter.country(magn09,country="Serbia")