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load.bathy

Import lake bathymetry data.

Description

Imports lake bathymetry data. Bathymetric data file must be a 2 column array where depth (in meters) and area (in meters^2) information are provided in columns with headers containing the words "depths" and "areas" respectively.

Usage

load.bathy(fPath)

Arguments

fPath

File path to the bathymetry file.

Value

data.frame of depth and area for given lake.

Examples

#Get the path for the package example file included
  exampleFilePath <- system.file('extdata', 'Sparkling.bth', package="rLakeAnalyzer")
  
  #Load and plot the hypsometric curve
  sparkling.bathy = load.bathy(exampleFilePath)
  
  #If successful, there will be two colums. "depths", and "areas".
  plot(sparkling.bathy$areas, sparkling.bathy$depths, type='l', ylim=c(20,0), 
    ylab='Depths (m)', xlab='Areas (m^2)')

rLakeAnalyzer

Lake Physics Tools

v1.11.4.1

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Luke Winslow, Jordan Read, Richard Woolway, Jennifer Brentrup, Taylor Leach, Jake Zwart, Sam Albers, Doug Collinge

Initial release