get.soil.texture: Enter soil texture data

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Enter soil texture data

Description

‘⁠get.soil.texture⁠’ calls ‘⁠get.triprop⁠’ to allow the user to enter soil textures as the proportions or percentages of three components, sand, silt and clay.

Usage

 get.soil.texture(use.percentages=FALSE,cnames=c("sand","silt","clay"))

Arguments

use.percentages	Logical - whether to treat the entries as percentages and scale to proportions.
cnames	column names for the resulting three column matrix.

Value

A matrix of the components of one or more soil samples.

Author(s)

Sander Oom and Jim Lemon

See Also

soil.texture,get.triprop

Examples

 if(dev.interactive()) {
  newsp<-get.soil.texture()
  # show the soil triangle
  soil.texture()
  # now plot the observations
  show.soil.texture(newsp)
 }

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