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read.raster.from.url

It imports a 'RasterLayer' object in Escri-Asci format from a URL 'http://....<FILENAME>.asc

It imports a 'RasterLayer' object in Escri-Asci format from a URL 'http://....<FILENAME>.asc

read.raster.from.url(x, header_nrow = 6, ...)

`x`	the charcater string containing the URL address
`header_nrow`	Number of header in the ASCII grid format. Deafault is 6. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esri_grid
`...`	additional arguments

a 'RasterLayer' object

This function reads a local or remote text files formatted as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esri_grid and creates a 'RasterLayer' object.