CRAN
Metadata 1.1
Collates Metadata for Climate Surface Stations
Released Aug 2, 2012 by
This package cannot yet be used with Renjin it depends on other packages which are not available: rgdal 1.3-4 and R.utils 2.6.0
Dependencies
R.utils 2.6.0 rgdal 1.3-4 raster 2.6-7 RCurl ncdf 1.6.9 sp 1.3-1
This package collects and downloads a variety of open GIS datasets that can be used to characterize the surface properties of Latitude/Longitude points. In addition, some restricted ( registration required to download) datasets are processed. Dataset include: distance from coast, distance from airport, land cover, land use, population density, historical populations, nightlights, impermable surfaces,urban extent, irrigation, and blue water use.