oce (version 0.1.63)

read.lobo: Read a lobo data file

Description

Read a data file created by a LOBO instrument.

Usage

read.lobo(file, cols=7)

Arguments

file

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

cols

Number of columns in dataset.

Value

• A lobo object containing:
• header
  The files' header.
• processing.log
  The processing log.
• time
  Times of observations in the time series.
• u
  Time series of u component of velocity.
• v
  Time series of v component of velocity.
• nitrate
  Time series of nitrate concentration.
• fluorescence
  Time series of fluorescence.
• S
  Time series of salinity.
• T
  Time series of temperature.
• p
  Time series of pressure.
• data
  The files's data, as a simple list.

Details

This version of read.lobo is very crude.

References

http://www.satlantic.com/default.asp?mn=1.15.27.139 http://www.mbari.org/lobo/

See Also

summary.lobo plot.lobo

Examples

library(oce)
uri <- paste("http://loboviz.satlantic.com/cgi-bin/nph-data.cgi?",
	"min_date=20070110&max_date=20091230",
 	"&x=date&",
 	"y=current_across1,current_along1,nitrate,fluorescence,salinity,temperature&",
 	"data_format=text",sep="")
l <- read.lobo(uri)
summary(l)