oce: oce: A Package for Oceanographic Analysis
Description
The oce package provides functions for working with
Oceanographic data, for calculations that are specific
to Oceanography, and for producing graphics that
match the conventions of the field.
Specialized functions
A key function is read.oce, which will attempt
to read Oceanographic data in raw format. This uses
oceMagic to try to detect the file type,
based on the file name and contents. If it proves impossible
to detect the type, users should next try a more specialized
function, e.g. read.ctd for CTD files, or
read.ctd.sbe for Teledyne-Seabird files.Generic methods
A list of the generic methods in oce is provided by
`methods(class="oce")`; a few that are used frequently
are as follows.
- [[
- Find the value of an item in the object's
metadata or data slot.
See [[,oce-method or type ?"[[,oce-method"
to learn more. - [[<-
- Alters the named item in the object's
metadata or
data slot.
See [[<-,oce-method or type ?"[[<-,oce-method"
to learn more. - summary
- Displays some information about the object named as an
argument, including a few elements from its
metadata slot
and some statistics of the contents of its data slot.
See summary,oce-method or type ?"summary,oce-method"
to learn more. - subset
- Takes a subset of an oce object.
See subset,oce-method or type
?"subset,oce-method"
to learn more.
Oceanographic data types handled
Over a dozen specialized data types are handled by oce,
with generic plots and summaries for each, along with
the specialized functions needed for typical Oceanographic
analysis.Oce object structure
See oce-class for a summary of the class structure
and links to documentation for the many subclasses of
oce objects, each aligned with a class of instrument or
or type of dataset.