summary.echosounder {oce}R Documentation

Summarize an echosounder object

Description

Summarizes some of the data in an echosounder object.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'echosounder'
summary(object, ...)

Arguments

object

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

...

further arguments passed to or from other methods.

Details

Pertinent summary information is presented, including the sampling location, data ranges, etc.

Value

A matrix containing statistics of the elements of the data slot.

Author(s)

Dan Kelley

See Also

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

Examples

library(oce)
data(echosounder)
summary(echosounder)

[Package oce version 0.9-18 Index]