oce (version 0.1-76)

summary.section: Summarize a CTD section

Description

Summarize a CTD section.

Usage

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

Arguments

object

a section object, e.g. as read by make.section.

quiet

set TRUE to prevent this from printing anything, e.g. if the goal is just to get the return value.

...

passed to children.

Value

• Returns (invisibly) a data frame with elements filename, the original name of CTD file for a given station, and the station coordinates stored in latitude (decimal degrees, positive north of the equator), and longitude (in decimal degrees, positive east of Greenwich).

Details

Pertinent summary information is presented about the stations in the section.

See Also

A section object may be created by using make.section to assemble individual ctd objects, or it may be created by reading a section data file with read.section.

Examples

library(oce)
data(section)
summary(section)