oce (version 0.9-17)

makeSection: Bind CTD profiles together into a cross section

Description

Combine a series of CTD profiles together to create a section.

Usage

makeSection(item, ...)

Arguments

item

either (1) a ctd object, in which case the rest of the arguments are other ctd objects, (2) a list of ctd objects, (3) a list of names of ctd objects, or (4) a list of names of files containi

...

one or more ctd objects, either given as separate arguments, or a list of such objects.

Value

• An object of class section.

Details

The stations are stored in order of the station identification number (stored as metadata$station in the ctd object), if possible. The ctd stations must share identical pressure values; use sectionGrid to do that.

See Also

See section-class for information on section objects and functions that deal with them.

Examples

library(oce)
data(ctd)
ctd2 <- ctd
ctd2[["temperature"]] <- ctd[["temperature"]] + 0.5
ctd2[["latitude"]] <- ctd[["latitude"]] + 0.1
section <- makeSection(ctd, ctd2)
summary(section)
# Below is how to create a section from well-named CSV files
# that contain consecutive stations
plot(sectionSmooth(sectionGrid(makeSection(dir("*.csv")))))