[R-sig-Geo] [R-sig-DB] how to read CRU climatic data files with R?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is the databases list, not for reading ASCII files.

Please try R-help.

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Nicolas Degallier wrote:

> Hi R helpers,
>
> I have downloaded time series of climatic data from CRU (Climatic
> Research Unit) which are ASCII files with a specific format for the
> data.
> The format is described here:
>
> http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timm/grid/CRU_TS_2_1.html
>
> under the link "file format".
>
> I would like to know if somebody has already written some script in R
> to open and manage these data, for example for selecting only
> portions of the time series and/or pieces of the spatial grid?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nicolas Degallier
>
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>
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