oce (version 0.1.63)

read.sealevel: Read a sea-level data file

Description

Read a data file holding sea level data. BUG: the time vector assumes GMT, regardless of the GMT.offset value.

Usage

read.sealevel(file,debug=FALSE)

Arguments

file

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

debug

Set to TRUE to get debugging information during processing.

Value

• A sealevel object containing
• header
  The header line (helpful if detail extraction failed)
• ... for various station descriptors, see as.sealevel
• n
  Number of data values
• hour
  Times [h]
• time
  Time [POSIXct]
• processing.log
  A processing log.
• eta
  Sea level [m]

Details

See sealevel for details of the data format.

References

The site http://ilikai.soest.hawaii.edu/uhslc/datai.html provides a graphical interface for downloading sealevel data.

See Also

summary.sealevel summarizes the information, while plot.sealevel plots it.

Examples

library(oce)
h<-read.sealevel("ftp://ilikai.soest.hawaii.edu/rqds/pacific/monthly/m652a.dat")
summary(h)
plot(h)