oce (version 0.1-78)

read.adv: Read an ADV data file

Description

Read an ADV data file, producing an object of type adv.

Usage

read.adv(file, from=0, to, by=1,
        type=c("nortek", "sontek", "sontek.adr", "sontek.text"),
        withHeader=TRUE, sampling.start, deltat,
        tz=getOption("oce.tz"), debug=getOption("oce.debug"), monitor=TRUE, log.action)
read.adv.nortek(file, from=0, to, by=1,
                type="vector",
                withHeader=TRUE, sampling.start, deltat,
                tz=getOption("oce.tz"), debug=getOption("oce.debug"), monitor=TRUE, log.action)
read.adv.sontek(file, from=0, to, by=1,
                type="default",
                withHeader=TRUE, sampling.start, deltat,
                tz=getOption("oce.tz"), debug=getOption("oce.debug"), monitor=TRUE, log.action)
read.adv.sontek.adr(file, from=0, to, by=1,
                tz=getOption("oce.tz"), debug=getOption("oce.debug"), monitor=TRUE, log.action)
read.adv.sontek.text(basefile, from=0, to, by=1,
                     coordinate.system="xyz",
                     transformation.matrix,
                     tz=getOption("oce.tz"), debug=getOption("oce.debug"), log.action)

Arguments

file

a connection or a character string giving the name of the file to load.

basefile

character string giving the base name of files to load (used only by read.adv.sontek.text). The actual filenames are constructed by appending ".hd1" and ".ts1" to the base name.

from

number of profiles to skip at start, or the POSIXt time at which to start reading. See Examples, and make careful note of the use of the tz argument. (IGNORED AT PRESENT.)

to

optional number of profiles to read, or the last POSIXt time to read. (IGNORED AT PRESENT.)

by

an indication of the stride length to use while walking through the file. If this is an integer, then by-1 profiles are skipped between each pair of profiles that is read. This may not make much sense, if the data are not equi-sp

type

a character string indicating the type of file.

withHeader

a boolean indicating whether the file has a proper header or is a partial file, chopped out into smaller time chunks with a deck unit.

sampling.start

a POSIXct time corresponding to the first sample. (This is mandatory if withHeader=FALSE.)

coordinate.system

character string indicating coordinate system, one of "beam", "xyz", "enu" or "other".

transformation.matrix

transformation matrix to use, over-riding anything in the data file e.g. rbind(c(2.710, -1.409, -1.299), c(0.071, 2.372, -2.442), c(0.344, 0.344, 0.344)). This is only relevant if the coordinate system is "beam".

tz

character string indicating time zone to be assumed in the data.

deltat

the time between samples. (This is mandatory if withHeader=FALSE.)

debug

a flag that turns on debugging. Set to 1 to get a moderate amount of debugging information, or to 2 to get more.

monitor

boolean, set to TRUE to provide an indication (with numbers and dots) of every profile read.

log.action

if provided, the action item to be stored in the log. (Typically only provided for internal calls; the default that it provides is better for normal calls by a user.)

Value

• An object of class "adv", which contains measurements made with an ADV device. For information on data stored in the object, see Details.

Details

Reads a binary-format ADV file. This is preliminary code, and the function calls could very well change through the summer of 2009.

It is crucial to pay careful attention if withHeader is FALSE, since that condition forces read.adv to make guesses about important things. In particular, it will set metadata$deltat=1, metadata$orientation="downward" and metadata$oce.coordinate="beam". It is up to the user to modify these values if they are wrong.

Special notes: Nortek adr files: the file format assumed here is not the same as in the documentation that I have available. The documentation is for Firmware Version 4.0 (October 1997), but this does not match a data file used for testing. The following are the differences:

1. The second byte of the burst header is 0x11, but the documentation says it should be 0x10; the code takes either.
2. The data length is assumed to be 22, no matter it is. This is done to match the files being used by the author. The documentation suggests that the number of bytes can be inferred from the header, but this is difficult because the information stored in the headerRecordedDatabyte does not agree with the docs (bit 0 is 0 in the file, but we *do* have amplitude and correlation data).
3. The sampling rate is taken to be in units of 0.01Hz, not 0.1Hz as documented.

See Also

Objects of class adv may be plotted with plot.adv or summarized with summary.adv. Coordinate transformations are done with adv.beam2xyz, adv.xyz2enu, and adv.enu2other, in that order.

Examples

library(oce)
adv <- read.adv("~/data/sleiwex-archive/2008/mooring/m6/autopod/day183/SL08A183.015", 
       sampling.start=as.POSIXct("2008-07-01 15:00:00", tz="UTC"), deltat=0.1)
summary(adv)
plot(adv)