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oce (version 0.8-6)

pt-class: Class to store pressure-temperature recorder data

Description

Class to store pressure-temperature recorder data, with standard slots metadata, data and processingLog.

Arguments

Methods

Data may be accessed as e.g. pt[["time"]], where the string could also be "pressure" or "temperature". Assignment to these can be made with e.g. pt[["pressure"]] <- value, etc. Indeed, any quantity in the metadata slot or the data slot can be retrieved or updated in this way.

See Also

A pt object may be read with read.pt or created with as.pt. Plots can be made with plot.pt, while summary.pt produces statistical summaries and show produces overviews. If atmospheric pressure has not been removed from the data, the functions ptPatm may provide guidance as to its value. Similarly, if the record contains periods when the instrument was in the air, ptTrim may prove useful in isolating the times when it was in the water. However, these last two functions are no equal to decent record-keeping at sea.