summary.coastline {oce}R Documentation

Summarize a coastline data object

Description

Summarizes coastline length, bounding box, etc.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'coastline':
summary(object, ...)

## S3 method for class 'summary.coastline':
print(x, digits=max(6, getOption("digits")-1), ...)

Arguments

object an object of class "coastline", usually, a result of a call to read.coastline or read.oce.
x an object of class "summary.coastline", usually, a result of a call to summary.coastline.
digits the number of significant digits to use when printing.
... further arguments passed to or from other methods.

Value

An object of class "summary.coastline", which contains pertinent information about the Lobo record and its processing.

Author(s)

Dan Kelley

References

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/shorelines.html

See Also

The coastline object may be read with read.coastline and plotted with plot.coastline.

Examples

## Not run: 
library(oce)
cl <- read.coastline("7404.dat")
plot(cl)
## End(Not run)

[Package oce version 0.1-80 Index]