oce (version 0.1-76)

summary.coastline: Summarize a coastline data object

Description

Summarizes coastline length, bounding box, etc.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'coastline':
summary(object, \dots)

Arguments

object

A coastline object, e.g. as read by read.coastline.

...

Passed to children.

References

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/shorelines.html

See Also

The coastline object may be read with read.coastline and plotted with plot.coastline.

Examples

library(oce)
cl <- read.coastline("7404.dat")
plot(cl)