read.adp.sontek.serial {oce} | R Documentation

## Read a serial Sontek ADP file

### Description

Read a Sontek acoustic-Dopplerprofiler file, in a serial form that is possibly unique to Dalhousie University.

### Usage

    read.adp.sontek.serial(file, from = 1, to, by = 1,
      tz = getOption("oceTz"), longitude = NA, latitude = NA,
      type = c("adp", "pcadp"), beamAngle = 25, orientation, monitor = FALSE,
      processingLog, debug = getOption("oceDebug"))

### Arguments

`file` | a connection or a character string giving the name of the file to load. (For `read.adp.sontek.serial`, this is generally a list of files, which will be concatenated.
`from` | indication of the first profile to read. This can be an integer, the sequence number of the first profile to read, or a POSIXt time before which profiles should be skipped, or a character string that converts to a POSIXt time (assuming UTC timezone). See “Examples”, and make careful note of the use of the `tz` argument.
`to` | if supplied, an indication of the last profile to read, in a format as described for `from`. If not supplied, the whole file will be read.
`by` | an indication of the stride length to use while walking through the file. If this is an integer, then `by-1` profiles are skipped between each pair of profiles that is read. If this is a string representing a time interval, in colon-separated format (MM:SS), then this interval is divided by the sampling interval, to get the stride length.
`tz` | character string indicating time zone to be assumed in the data.
`longitude` | optional signed number indicating the longitude in degrees East.
`latitude` | optional signed number indicating the latitude in degrees North.
`type` | A character string indicating the type of instrument.
`beamAngle` | angle between instrument axis and beams, in degrees.
`orientation` | Ooptional character string specifying the orientation of the sensor, provided for those cases in which it cannot be inferred from the data file. The valid choices are `"upward"`, `"downward"`, and `"sideward"`.
`monitor` | boolean, set to `TRUE` to provide an indication (with numbers and dots) of every profile read.
`processingLog` | if provided, the action item to be stored in the log. (Typically only provided for internal calls; the default that it provides is better for normal calls by a user.)
`debug` | a flag that turns on debugging. Set to 1 to get a moderate amount of debugging information, or to 2 to get more.
`...` | additional arguments, passed to called routines.

### Value

An `adp` object, i.e. one inheriting from `adp-class`.

### Author(s)

Dan Kelley and Clark Richards

### See Also

Other things related to `adp` data: `[[,adp-method`, `[[<-,adp-method`, `adp-class`, `adp`, `as.adp`, `beamName`, `beamToXyzAdp`, `beamToXyzAdv`, `beamToXyz`, `beamUnspreadAdp`, `binmapAdp`, `enuToOtherAdp`, `enuToOther`, `plot,adp-method`, `read.adp.nortek`, `read.adp.rdi`, `read.adp.sontek`, `read.adp`, `read.aquadoppHR`, `read.aquadoppProfiler`, `read.aquadopp`, `subset,adp-method`, `summary,adp-method`, `toEnuAdp`, `toEnu`, `velocityStatistics`, `xyzToEnuAdp`, `xyzToEnu`

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