oce: an R package for Oceanographic Analysis
Dan Kelley, Clark Richards, Chantelle Layton
Abstract
Oceanographic field experiments often employ a suite of instrument types, each reporting data in a different format. Many of these formats are complex and difficult to decode. Manufacturers usually provide software for accessing data produced by their instruments, but it is usually proprietary and closed-source, making it difficult for researchers to analyse their data in novel ways or to combine data from multiple instruments. The oce package (Kelley, Richards, & Layton, 2021) addresses such issues in the R language 1 with functions that handle dozens of data formats. It also has facilities for the specialized calculations and data displays that are particular to oceanography. Since oce is written in the R language (Ihaka & Gentleman, 1996; R Core Team, 2021), it forms a link to a vast array of general tools that oceanographers use in their work