downloadNightLights: Download Night Lights data from NOAA

In walshc/nightlights: nightlights

Description

Download night lights data from NOAA for specific years.

Usage

downloadNightLights(years, extract = TRUE, directory = NULL,
                    download.method = NULL, ...)

Arguments

years	The years of data to download, e.g. 2000:2002 or c(1992, 2002, 2012). The available years are 1992-2013.
extract	(Logical) Should the downloaded files be extracted from the tarballs? Default is TRUE.
directory	The directory to save the files to. If omitted, it saves to the current directory. If the directory does not yet exist, it will be created.
download.method	Method to use in the download.file button. If not specified it will use internal on Windows and wget otherwise. Extra arguments can also be passed to the download.file function such as extra when needed.

Examples

  downloadNightLights(years = c(1992, 2002, 2012), directory = "night-lights")

walshc/nightlights documentation built on May 3, 2019, 11:51 p.m.