rnoaa (version 0.2.0)

seaice: Get sea ice data.

Description

Get sea ice data.

Usage

seaice(url, ...)

Arguments

url
A url for a NOAA sea ice ftp file
...
Further arguments passed on to readshpfile function, see readshpfile

Value

A data.frame

Examples

Run this code
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# # Look at data.frame's for a series of years for Feb, South pole
# urls <- sapply(seq(1979,1990,1), function(x) seaiceeurls(yr=x, mo='Feb', pole='S'))
# out <- lapply(urls, seaice)
# lapply(out, head)
# 
# # Map a single year/month/pole combo
# urls <- seaiceeurls(mo='Apr', pole='N', yr=1990)
# out <- seaice(urls)
# library('ggplot2')
# ggplot(out, aes(long, lat, group=group)) +
#    geom_polygon(fill="steelblue") +
#    theme_ice()
# 
# # Map all years for April only for North pole
# library('plyr')
# library('doMC')
# urls <- seaiceeurls(mo='Apr', pole='N')
# registerDoMC(cores=4)
# out <- llply(urls, seaice, .parallel=TRUE)
# names(out) <- seq(1979,2013,1)
# df <- ldply(out)
# ggplot(df, aes(long, lat, group=group)) +
#   geom_polygon(fill="steelblue") +
#   theme_ice() +
#   facet_wrap(~ .id)
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