Simulate a collection of soil profiles based on the horizonation of a single soil profile. Now deprecated: use <code>perturb()</code> for perturbations of horizon thicknesses or boundaries.

The Algorithms for Quantitative Pedology (AQP) project was started in 2009 to organize a loosely-related set of concepts and source code on the topic of soil profile visualization, aggregation, and classification into this package (aqp). Over the past 8 years, the project has grown into a suite of related R packages that enhance and simplify the quantitative analysis of soil profile data. Central to the AQP project is a new vocabulary of specialized functions and data structures that can accommodate the inherent complexity of soil profile information; freeing the scientist to focus on ideas rather than boilerplate data processing tasks <doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2012.10.020>. These functions and data structures have been extensively tested and documented, applied to projects involving hundreds of thousands of soil profiles, and deeply integrated into widely used tools such as SoilWeb <https://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/soilweb-apps>. Components of the AQP project (aqp, soilDB, sharpshootR, soilReports packages) serve an important role in routine data analysis within the USDA-NRCS Soil Science Division. The AQP suite of R packages offer a convenient platform for bridging the gap between pedometric theory and practice.

Dylan Beaudette

Algorithms for Quantitative Pedology

Pierre Roudier

Andrew Brown

sim function

<dl><dt>x</dt>
<dd>a SoilProfileCollection object containing a single profile from which to draw simulated data</dd>
<dt>n</dt>
<dd>the number of requested simulations</dd>
<dt>iterations</dt>
<dd>sampling iterations used to determine each horizon thickness</dd>
<dt>hz.sd</dt>
<dd>standard deviation used to simulate horizon thickness, can be a vector but must divide evenly into the number of horizons found in <code>x</code></dd>
<dt>min.thick</dt>
<dd>minimum horizon thickness allowed in simulation results</dd></dl>

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DEPRECATED Simulate Soil Profiles — sim

<dl>

<dt>x</dt>
<dd>a SoilProfileCollection object containing a single profile from which to draw simulated data</dd>


<dt>n</dt>
<dd>the number of requested simulations</dd>


<dt>iterations</dt>
<dd>sampling iterations used to determine each horizon thickness</dd>


<dt>hz.sd</dt>
<dd>standard deviation used to simulate horizon thickness, can be a vector but must divide evenly into the number of horizons found in <code>x</code></dd>


<dt>min.thick</dt>
<dd>minimum horizon thickness allowed in simulation results</dd>

</dl>

sim: DEPRECATED Simulate Soil Profiles

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