oce (version 0.9-18)

read.topo: Read an topography file

Description

Read a file that contains topographic data in the ETOPO dataset, as provided by the NOAA website [1].

Usage

read.topo(file, ...)

Arguments

file

name of a file containing an ETOPO2 dataset.

...

additional arguments, passed to called routines.

Value

• An object of type class "topo", which has the following slots.
• data
  : a data frame containing lat, lon, and z
• metadata
  : a list containing the source filename
• processingLog
  : a log, in the standard oce format.

References

[1] NOAA website that provides datasets: http://maps.ngdc.noaa.gov/viewers/wcs-client with the ArcGIS ASCII Grid menu item selected.

Examples

library(oce)
topoMaritimes <- read.topo("topoMaritimes.asc")
plot(topographyMaritimes)