summary.section {oce} | R Documentation |
Summarize a CTD section.
## S3 method for class 'section': summary(object, quiet, ...)
object |
a section object, e.g. as read by make.section . |
quiet |
set TRUE to prevent this from printing anything, e.g. if the goal is just to get the return value. |
... |
passed to children. |
Pertinent summary information is presented about the stations in the section.
Returns (invisibly) a data frame with elements filename
,
the original name of CTD file for a given station, and the station
coordinates stored in latitude
(decimal degrees, positive north
of the equator), and longitude
(in decimal degrees, positive
east of Greenwich).
Dan Kelley
A section
object may be created by using
make.section
to assemble individual ctd
objects,
or it may be created by reading a section data file with
read.section
.
library(oce) data(section) summary(section)