summary.bathy {marmap}

Summary of bathymetric data of class bathy

Description

Summary of bathymetric data of class bathy. Provides geographic bounds and resolution (in minutes) of the dataset, statistics on depth data, and a preview of the bathymetric matrix.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'bathy'
summary(object, ...)

Arguments

object

object of class bathy

...

additional arguments affecting the summary produced (see base function summary).

Value

Information on the geographic bounds of the dataset (minimum and maximum latitude and longitude), resolution of the matrix in minutes, statistics on the depth data (e.g. min, max, median...), and a preview of the data.

Author(s)

Eric Pante and Benoit Simon-Bouhet

See Also

read.bathy, plot.bathy

Examples

# load NW Atlantic data
data(nw.atlantic)

# use as.bathy
atl <- as.bathy(nw.atlantic)

# class bathy
class(atl)

# summarize data of class bathy
summary(atl)