isEmpty: Check for "empty" profiles in a SoilProfileCollection

In aqp: Algorithms for Quantitative Pedology

Check for "empty" profiles in a SoilProfileCollection

Description

"Empty" profiles are used as placeholders for positions in a SoilProfileCollection These profiles result from operations that remove or extract portions of horizons from source profiles.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'SoilProfileCollection'
isEmpty(object, ...)

Arguments

object	A SoilProfileCollection
...	Additional arguments not used.

Details

In a SoilProfileCollection an empty profile occurs when it has one horizon, with NA top and bottom depths. Generally all non-profile ID site and horizon-level values are all also NA, but only the depths are checked by isEmpty().

Value

logical. Vector of length equal to number of profiles in object. Returns TRUE when a profile has one horizon with NA top and bottom depths

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