read.lobo {oce} | R Documentation |
Read a data file created by a LOBO instrument.
read.lobo(file, cols = 7, processingLog)
file |
a connection or a character string giving the name of the file to load. |
cols |
number of columns in dataset. |
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.) |
This version of read.lobo
is really quite crude, having been
developed mainly for a “predict the Spring bloom” contest at Dalhousie
University. In particular, the function assumes that the data columns are
exactly as specified in the Examples section; if you reorder the columns or
add new ones, this function is unlikely to work correctly. Furthermore, it
should be noted that the file format was inferred simply by downloading
files; the supplier makes no claims that the format will be fixed in time.
It is also worth noting that there is no read.oce
equivalent
to read.lobo
, because the file format has no recognizable header.
An object of lobo-class
.
Dan Kelley
## Not run: library(oce) uri <- paste("http://lobo.satlantic.com/cgi-bin/nph-data.cgi?", "min_date=20070220&max_date=20070305", "&x=date&", "y=current_across1,current_along1,nitrate,fluorescence,salinity,temperature&", "data_format=text",sep="") lobo <- read.lobo(uri) ## End(Not run)