oce (version 0.9-20)

subset,argo-method: Subset an Argo Object

Description

Subset an argo object, either by selecting just the "adjusted" data or by subsetting by pressure or other variables.

Usage

"subset"(x, subset, ...)

Arguments

x

An object inheriting from argo-class.

subset

An expression indicating how to subset x.

...

Ignored.

Value

An argo object.

Details

If subset is the string "adjusted", then subset replaces the station variables with their adjusted counterparts. In the argo notation, e.g. PSAL is replaced with PSAL_ADJUSTED; in the present notation, this means that salinity in the data slot is replaced with salinityAdjusted, and the latter is deleted. Similar replacements are also done with the flags stored in the metadata slot.

If subset is an expression, then the action is somewhat similar to other subset functions, but with the restriction that only one independent variable may be used in in any call to the function, so that repeated calls will be necessary to subset based on more than one independent variable. Subsetting may be done by anything stored in the data, e.g. time, latitude, longitude, profile, dataMode, or pressure or by profile (a made-up variable) or id (from the metadata slot).

See Also

Other things related to argo data: [[,argo-method, [[<-,argo-method, argo-class, argoGrid, argo, as.argo, handleFlags,argo-method, plot,argo-method, read.argo, summary,argo-method

Examples

library(oce)
data(argo)

# Example 1: buset by time, longitude, and pressure
par(mfrow=c(2,2))
plot(argo)
plot(subset(argo, time > mean(time)))
plot(subset(argo, longitude > mean(longitude)))
plot(subset(argoGrid(argo), pressure > 500 & pressure < 1000), which=5)

# Example 2: restrict attention to delayed-mode profiles.
par(mfrow=c(1,1))
plot(subset(argo, dataMode == "D"))

# Example 3: contrast corrected and uncorrected data
par(mfrow=c(1,2))
plotTS(argo)
plotTS(subset(argo, "adjusted"))