coastlineBest: Find the Name of the Best Coastline Object
In oce: Analysis of Oceanographic Data

coastlineBest

R Documentation

Find the Name of the Best Coastline Object

Description

Find the name of the most appropriate coastline for a given locale Checks coastlineWorld, coastlineWorldFine and coastlineWorldCoarse, in that order, to find the one most appropriate for the locale.

Usage

coastlineBest(lonRange, latRange, span, debug = getOption("oceDebug"))

Arguments

`lonRange`	range of longitude for locale
`latRange`	range of latitude for locale
`span`	span of domain in km (if provided, previous two arguments are ignored).
`debug`	set to a positive value to get debugging information during processing.

Value

The name of a coastline that can be loaded with data().

Author(s)

Dan Kelley

Other things related to coastline data: [[,coastline-method, [[<-,coastline-method, as.coastline(), coastline-class, coastlineCut(), coastlineWorld, download.coastline(), plot,coastline-method, read.coastline.openstreetmap(), read.coastline.shapefile(), subset,coastline-method, summary,coastline-method