oce (version 0.2-1)

summary.coastline: Summarize a coastline data object

Description

Summarizes coastline length, bounding box, etc.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'coastline':
summary(object, \dots)
## S3 method for class 'summary.coastline':
print(x, digits=max(6, getOption("digits")-1), ...)

Arguments

object

an object of class "coastline", usually, a result of a call to read.coastline or read.oce.

x

an object of class "summary.coastline", usually, a result of a call to summary.coastline.

digits

the number of significant digits to use when printing.

...

further arguments passed to or from other methods.

Value

• An object of class "summary.coastline", which contains pertinent information about the Lobo record and its processing.

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)