MetFns (version 2.1.0)

read.rate: Read rate data

Description

Reads rate data from IMO site or saved file.

Usage

read.rate(data)

Arguments

data

the name of the file or connection to read from.

Value

A data frame containing a representation of the data in the file.

Details

Argument data represents path to the file to be opened or a complete URL.

References

http://www.imo.net/data/visual

See Also

read.magn

Examples

## read rate data for the year 2011 from IMO site
read.rate("http://www.imo.net/files/data/vmdb/RATE_11.TXT")