How do I open a different archive?

You can open and close archives using these commands:

• close the current archive

shut.down(RSS$source)  ## closes files associated with the currently open archive

• open a new archive of the same type

config(RSS$source, filename="c:/data/myblipmovie")  ## reopen this source as a different archive
start.up(RSS$source)

• open an archive of a different type

RSS$source <- SEASCANARCH$get.ports()[[1]]                ## make the source a seascan archive reader
config(RSS$source, filename="c:/data/myseascanarch.dat")  ## set the filename
start.up(RSS$source)                                      ## open the file

or

RSS$source <- BLIPMOVIEARCH$get.ports()[[1]]        ## make the source a blipmovie archive reader
config(RSS$source, filename="c:/data/myblipmovie")  ## set the base filename
start.up(RSS$source)                                ## open the files

or (Windows only; the seascan plugin is not available for linux)

SEASCAN$get.ports()                     ## list sources of data available from the SeaScan plugin
RSS$source <- SEASCAN$get.ports()[[1]] ## make the source live radar channel 1 via SeaScan
start.up(RSS$source)                    ## open the connection to the SeaScan server