Ephemeris R package

Overview

The only function in this package is ephemeris(), which downloads and extends Ephemeris data from an Observatoire de Paris webserver (Reference 1). Some familiarity with that website will be of use to people trying to use this package.

Installation

ephemeris is not on CRAN, but may be installed with

remotes::install_github("dankelley/ephemeris")

Example

Running the example

library(ephemeris)
example(ephemeris)

shows a typical use for the package.

References

  1. Institut de mécanique céleste et de calcul des éphémérides (https://ssp.imcce.fr/webservices/miriade/api/ephemcc/)