read.adp.nortek: Read a Nortek ADP File

Description

Read a Nortek ADP File

Usage

read.adp.nortek(
  file,
  from = 1,
  to,
  by = 1,
  tz = getOption("oceTz"),
  longitude = NA,
  latitude = NA,
  type = c("aquadoppHR", "aquadoppProfiler", "aquadopp", "aquadoppPlusMagnetometer"),
  orientation,
  distance,
  encoding = NA,
  monitor = FALSE,
  despike = FALSE,
  processingLog,
  debug = getOption("oceDebug"),
  ...
)

Value

An adp object. The contents of that object make sense for the particular instrument type under study, e.g. if the data file contains NMEA strings, then navigational data will be stored in an item called nmea in the data slot).

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. If from is not supplied, it defaults to 1.
to: an optional indication of the last profile to read, in a format as described for from. As a special case, to=0 means to read the file to the end. If to is not supplied, then it defaults to 0.
by: an optional 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, e.g. the default by=1 means to read all the data. (For RDI files only, there are some extra features to avoid running out of memory; see “Memory considerations”.)
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.
orientation: an optional 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".
distance: an optional vector holding the distances of bin centres from the sensor. This argument is ignored except for Nortek profilers, and need not be given if the function determines the distances correctly from the data. The problem is that the distance is poorly documented in the Nortek System Integrator Guide (2008 edition, page 31), so the function must rely on word-of-mouth formulae that do not work in all cases.
encoding: ignored.
monitor: boolean value indicating whether to indicate the progress of reading the file, by using txtProgressBar() or otherwise. The value of monitor is changed to FALSE automatically, for non-interactive sessions.
despike: a logical value indicating whether to use despike() to remove anomalous spikes in heading, etc.
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.
...: optional additional arguments that some (but not all) read.adp.*() functions pass to lower-level functions.

Author

Dan Kelley

References

Information on Nortek profilers (including the System Integrator Guide, which explains the data format byte-by-byte) is available at https://www.nortekusa.com/. (One must join the site to see the manuals.)
The Nortek Knowledge Center https://www.nortekusa.com/en/knowledge-center may be of help if problems arise in dealing with data from Nortek instruments.

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