R help - Oct 2016 - xtractomatic package is now available in CRAN

I am pleased to announce that the xtractomatic package is now available from
CRAN.

xtractomatic is an R package developed to subset and extract satellite and other
oceanographic related data from a remote server. The program can extract data
for a moving point in time along a user-supplied set of longitude, latitude and
time points; in a 3D bounding box; or within a polygon (through time). The
xtractomatic functions were originally developed for the marine biology tagging
community, to match up environmental data available from satellites (sea-surface
temperature, sea-surface chlorophyll, sea-surface height, sea-surface salinity,
vector winds) to track data from various tagged animals or shiptracks (xtracto).
The package has since been extended to include the routines that extract data a
3D bounding box (xtracto_3D) or within a polygon (xtractogon). The xtractomatic
package accesses data that are served through the ERDDAP  server at the
NOAA/SWFSC Environmental Research Division in Santa Cruz, California. The ERDDAP
server can also be directly accessed at http://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap.
ERDDAP is a simple to use yet powerful web data service developed by Bob Simons.


-Roy



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Roy Mendelssohn
Supervisory Operations Research Analyst
NOAA/NMFS
Environmental Research Division
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
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