MetFns (version 1.0)

filter.shw: Selection of visual meteor data by shower code

Description

Selects data for a given visual meteor dataset and specified shower code.

Usage

filter.shw(data, shw)

Arguments

data

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

shw

character string consisting of three capital letters which represent meteor shower code.

Value

• filter.shw returns data frame containing observations which correspond to specified meteor shower.

Details

List of meteor shower codes can be found in the dataframe shw_list.

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 Perseids 2000 

## rate data for the year 2000
data(rate00)
filter.shw(rate00,shw="PER")

## magnitude data for the year 2000
data(magn00)
filter.shw(magn00,shw="PER")