download.nefsc: Download NODC NEFSC data
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download.nefsc

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Download NODC NEFSC data

Description

Download data hosted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC).

Usage

download.nefsc(year, ship, destdir = ".", overwrite = FALSE)

Arguments

`year`	Optional number giving the year of interest
`ship`	Optional string indicating the ship of interest
`destdir`	Optional string indicating the directory in which to store downloaded files. If not supplied, `"."` is used, i.e. the data file is stored in the present working directory. Also, if the directory will be created if not already done so.
`overwrite`	Logical value indicating if data file(s) should be re-downloaded, or overwritten, if they already exist in destdir. Default is set to `FALSE`.

Details

This function downloads data hosted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) via an ftp connection. Users have the option of supplying either the year and or ship, but one must be supplied.

Valid ship abbreviations with full name

abbreviation	full name
aj
alb
am
arm	RV Neil Armstrong
c1
ch
del	FSV Delaware II
edl
eg
egg
en	E/V Endeavor
end
ex	Okeanos Explorer
ey	Eagle Eye II
gu	Gordon Gunter
hb	FSV Henry B. Bigelow
is
kat
nob
np
oce
ore
pc	FSV Pisces
pe
rel
s1	R/V Hugh R. Sharp
sj
unk