read.HIDROX: Load environmental data from governmental sources
In vetools: Tools for Venezuelan Environmental Data

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References See Also Examples

This sheet describes the functions to load environmental data from the formats used by MARN The Ministerio del Ambiente y Recursos Naturales.
MINAMB The Ministerio del Ambiente.
HIDROX The Argus data repository, see the references.

Each Ministry used a different data format to store the measured variables. For each available data, a read function is taylored.

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read.HIDROX(file, state = NA, altitudes = NA, serial = NA, unit = NA)
read.MARN(file)
read.MINAMB(file, state = NA, YSPLIT = 20)

`file`	String containing the path to the file to load.
`state`	A two letter character string identifying the state, see `get.shape.state(NA)` for a complete list.
`altitudes`	A list containing information relative to the elevation of each station in the file.
`serial`	A list containing information relative to the serial of each station in the file.
`unit`	A character string identifying the unit of the measured data, e.g. mm/month.
`YSPLIT`	This variable indicates from which decade (1900+`YSPLIT`) to consider between the 20th and 21st centuries.

To explore the each data format, the package ships three test files.
See the folder system.file("tests",package="vetools").

Returns a list of class Catalog with exactly two members, see Catalog Convention.

`catalog`	The catalog, a list of each stations meta data.
`data`	The data related to the catalog, a list of objects `ts`.

A.M. Sajo-Castelli

L. Bravo, S. Abad, I. Llatas, A. Salcedo, L. Delgado, S. Ramos, K. Cordova. Hidrox: Repositorio de Datos Hidroclim<c3><a1>ticos para la Gesti<c3><b3>n de Riesgos Epidemiol<c3><b3>gicos y Ambientales. 2012. ISBN:987-9-8012596-2-6.

Catalog Convention.

## Not run: 
collection.ZU = read.HIDROX('repo_est_ZU.csv', state="ZU", unit="Prec [mm/month]"))
summary(collection.ZU)
collection.ZU

## End(Not run)