rtop (version 0.5-10)

downloadRtopExampleData: Download additional example data

Description

Download additional example data from Vienna University of Technology

Usage

downloadRtopExampleData(folder = system.file("extdata",
                        package="rtop"))

Arguments

folder

the folder to which the downloaded data set will be copied

Value

The function will have as a side effect that additional example data is downloaded from Vienna University of Techology. This will for the default case replace the existing example data-set in the rtop package. Alternatively the user can specify a separate directory for the data set.

References

Skoien J. O., R. Merz, and G. Bloschl. Top-kriging - geostatistics on stream networks. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 10:277-287, 2006.

Skoien, J. O., Bloschl, G., Laaha, G., Pebesma, E., Parajka, J., Viglione, A., 2014. Rtop: An R package for interpolation of data with a variable spatial support, with an example from river networks. Computers & Geosciences, 67.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
  downloadRtopExampleData()
  rpath = system.file("extdata",package="rtop")
  observations = readOGR(rpath,"observations") 
# }