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labelWithUnit
creates a label with a unit, for graphical
display, e.g. by plot,section-method
.
The unit is enclosed in square brackets, although setting
options(oceUnitBracket="(")
will cause parentheses to be
used, instead.
labelWithUnit(name, unit = NULL)
labelWithUnit
returns a language object, created with bquote()
,
that that may supplied as a text string to legend()
, mtext()
, text()
,
etc.
character value naming a quantity.
a list containing items unit
and (optionally) scale
, only the
first of which, an expression()
, is used. If unit
is not provided,
then a default will be used (see “Details”).
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If name
is in a standard list, then alterations are made as appropriate,
e.g. "SA"
or "Absolute Salinity"
yields an S with subscript A; "CT"
or
"Conservative Temperature"
yields an upper-case Theta, sigmaTheta
yields a sigma with subscript theta, sigma0
yields
sigma with subscript 0 (with similar for 1 through 4), "N2"
yields "N" with
superscript 2, and "pressure"
yields "p".
These basic hydrographic quantities have default units that will
be used if unit
is not supplied (see “Examples”).
In addition to the above, several chemical names are recognized, but no unit is guessed for them, because the oceanographic community lacks agreed-upon standards.
If name
is not recognized, then it is simply repeated in the
return value.
Other functions that create labels:
resizableLabel()
library(oce)
# 1. temperature has a predefined unit, but this can be overruled
labelWithUnit("temperature")
labelWithUnit("temperature",
list(unit=expression(m/s), scale="erroneous"))
# 2. phosphate lacks a predefined unit
labelWithUnit("phosphate")
data(section)
labelWithUnit("phosphate",
section[["station",1]][["phosphateUnit"]])
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