oce (version 0.8-3)

summary.coastline: Summarize a coastline data object

Description

Summarizes coastline length, bounding box, etc.

Usage

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

Arguments

object

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

...

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 documentation for coastline-class explains the structure of coastline objects, and also outlines the other functions dealing with them.

Examples

library(oce)
cl <- read.coastline("7404.dat")
plot(cl)