read.EK_idx: Read idx files from Simrad EK* echosounders

View source: R/read.EK_idx.R

read.EK_idxR Documentation

Read idx files from Simrad EK* echosounders

Description

This function will read Simrad IDX0 datagrams with ping data.

Usage

read.EK_idx(file)

Arguments

file

EK* idx file name.

Details

This function calls read.EK_raw, and get_dgIdx functions to read the idx file, find the IDX0 datagrams, and then extracts ping information.

Value

A data frame with ping data: ping number, vessel distance, latitude, longitude, and fileoffset.

Author(s)

Héctor Villalobos.

See Also

read.EK_bot.

Examples

fn <- system.file("extdata", "demo-D20130504-T083828.idx", package = "echogram")
pings <- read.EK_idx(fn)
head(pings)
plot(pings$lon, pings$lat)


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