read.topo {oce} | R Documentation |
Read a file that contains topographic data in the ETOPO dataset, as provided by the NOAA website [1].
read.topo(file, ...)
file |
name of a file containing an ETOPO2 dataset. |
... |
additional arguments, passed to called routines. |
An object of type class
"topo"
,
which has the following slots.
|
: a data frame containing |
|
: a list containing the source filename |
|
: a log, in the standard |
Dan Kelley
[1] NOAA website that provides datasets:
http://maps.ngdc.noaa.gov/viewers/wcs-client with the ArcGIS ASCII
Grid
menu item selected.
## Not run: library(oce) topoMaritimes <- read.topo("topoMaritimes.asc") plot(topographyMaritimes) ## End(Not run)