#CHRISTY #url<-"ftp://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/data/msu/t2lt/uahncdc.lt"#obsolete url="http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2lt/uahncdc.lt" fred=readLines(url);N=length(fred) msu<-read.table(url,header=TRUE,nrow= N-4) msu<-ts(msu,start=c(1978,12),freq=12) msu.glb=msu[,"Globe"] name0=c("year","mo",c(t(outer(c("GLB","NH","SH","Trpcs","NoExt","SoExt","NoPol","SoPol"),c("","_land","_ocean"),function(x,y) paste(x,y,sep="")))),"USA48") dimnames(msu)[[2]]=name0