oce (version 1.0-1)

oce-class: Base Class for oce Objects

Description

This is mainly used within oce to create sub-classes, although users can use new("oce") to create a blank oce object, if desired.

Slots

metadata

A list containing information about the data. The contents vary across sub-classes, e.g. an adp-class object has information about beam patterns, which obviously would not make sense for a ctd-class object In addition, all classes have items named units and flags, used to store information on the units of the data, and the data quality.

data

A list containing the data.

processingLog

A list containing time-stamped processing steps, typically stored in the object by oce functions.

See Also

Other classes provided by oce: adp-class, adv-class, argo-class, bremen-class, cm-class, coastline-class, ctd-class, lisst-class, lobo-class, met-class, odf-class, rsk-class, sealevel-class, section-class, topo-class, windrose-class

Examples

# NOT RUN {
str(new("oce"))

# }