findBeacon: Find beacon(s) in the database

In thlytras/rfgfs: Flight planner and companion package for FlightGear

Description

findBeacon finds navigational beacons in the database by searching for matches in the navaid id or name. Internally it uses grep.

Usage

findBeacon(x, type = c("VOR", "NDB", "TACAN", "RSBN"), exact.id = FALSE)

Arguments

x	A character string containing a regular expression to be matched in the navaid ids or names.
type	Type(s) of beacons to be returned. By default, return all possible beacons (VORs, NDBs, TACANs and RSBNs).
exact.id	Match only on beacon id (as exact string).

Value

A data.frame of beacons found, with columns: lat, lon. elev, freq, id, name.

thlytras/rfgfs documentation built on May 31, 2019, 10:44 a.m.