R: Read a Bremen File

read.bremen {oce} | R Documentation

## Read a Bremen File

### Description

Read a file in Bremen format, producing an object inheriting from `bremen-class`.

### Usage

    read.bremen(file)

### Arguments

`file` | a connection or a character string giving the name of the file to load.

### Details

Velocities are assumed to be in cm/s, and are converted to m/s to follow the oce convention. Shears (which is what the variables named `uz` and `vz` are assumed to represent) are assumed to be in (cm/s)/m, although they could be in 1/s or something else; the lack of documentation is a problem here. Also, note that the assumed shears are not just first-difference estimates of velocity, given the results of a sample dataset:

    > head(data.frame(b[["data"]]))
      pressure      u      v       uz       vz
    1        0  0.092 -0.191  0.00000  0.00000
    2       10  0.092 -0.191  0.02183 -0.35412
    3       20  0.092 -0.191  0.03046 -0.09458
    4       30  0.026 -0.246 -0.03948  0.02169
    5       40 -0.003 -0.212 -0.02614  0.03111
    6       50 -0.023 -0.169 -0.03791  0.01706

### Value

An object of `bremen-class`.

### Issues

This function may be renamed (or removed) without notice. It was created to read some data being used in a particular research project, and will be rendered useless if Bremen changes this data format.

### Author(s)

Dan Kelley

### See Also

Other things related to bremen data: `[[,bremen-method`, `[[<-,bremen-method`, `bremen-class`, `plot,bremen-method`, `summary,bremen-method`

[Package oce version 1.1-1 Index]