RMprecip               package:fields               R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This is a useful spatial data set of moderate size consisting of
     865  locations.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(RMprecip)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     This data set is a list containing the following components: 

     _x Longitude-latitude position of monitoring stations. Rows names
          are station id codes. 

     _e_l_e_v Station elevation in meters. 

     _y Monthly total precipitation in millimeters. for August 1963

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     # this data set was created  the 
     # historical data  taken from 
     # Observed monthly precipitation, min and max temperatures for the coterminous US 
     # 1895-1997
     # NCAR_pinfill 
     # see the Geophysical Statistics Project datasets page for the supporting functions 
     # and details. 

     # plot 
     as.image( RMprecip$y, x=RMprecip$x)-> look
     image.plot( look)
     US( add=TRUE, col=2, lty=2)

     #

