plot_soilProfile: plot soil profile data

In ithir: Functions and Algorithms Specific to Pedometrics

Description

This is a simple function for plotting soil profile data that is supplied in dataframe form.

Usage

plot_soilProfile(data, vals, depths, label="")

Arguments

data	dataframe; Usually a typical soil information data frame with identifier and soil depth labelled columns, followed by one or more columns of soil attribute or even soil categorical data.
vals	vector; Would generally point to a column of data, and is the soil attribute value that needs to be ploted.
depths	dataframe; Would generally point to the two columns of data which specify the upper and lower depths of the soil profile observations.
label	character; An optional input the put a label on the x-axis, otherwise it will remain blank.

Value

Function returns a labeled plot of the soil profile information. The length of the bars corresponds to the value of the soil variable being plotted.

Note

This function is really designed to plot one soil profile at a time. Would need to be inserted into another function if plotting of a collection of soil profiles is required.

Author(s)

Brendan Malone

Examples

library(ithir)

data(oneProfile)
str(oneProfile)

#do plot
plot_soilProfile(data = oneProfile, vals = oneProfile$C.kg.m3., depths = oneProfile[,2:3], label= names(oneProfile)[4])

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