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[dankelley]

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[dankelley]

I'm Dan Kelley, a Physical Oceanographer at Dalhousie university and a co-author of the oce package. (Shameless plug: I also have a book that might interest oceanographers: Kelley, Dan E. Oceanographic Analysis with R. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2018. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781493988426.)

I do the majority of oce coding, and I monitor the issues regularly, although on the latter I probably am not as helpful as @richardsc.

[coffm049-2]

Hi there! I'm newer to using CTD-esque data. I'm working with some data that reports the variable "specc" which corresponds to the long name "Specific Conductance".

Using the oce package I see that this column automatically gets mapped to "Conductance" (as reported in line 156 of this file.

Is there any easy way for me to solve this? I was planning on forking and using my own version with a very slight change to account for this.

Thank you,
Christian

[richardsc]

And to clarify, I think that the issue could be boiled down to:

"specc" is incorrectly converted to "conductivity", but should be "specificConductance"

[coffm049-2]

Yes no problem. I'll go ahead and transfer it over to Issues.

[dankelley]

If it's an error, we can change oce, of course. I must have inferred that this was a type of conductivity from some manual. Note that if it's wrong, then perhaps the unit is wrong also, and that would mean a few more lines to change.

PS. the code I sent will work whether the file has that variable or not, as shown below

a <- data.frame(a=1:3, b=10:12)
str(a)
#> 'data.frame':    3 obs. of  2 variables:
#>  $ a: int  1 2 3
#>  $ b: int  10 11 12
n <- names(a)
# This won't change anything...
n[n == "c"] <- "will not happen"
names(a) <- n
str(a)
#> 'data.frame':    3 obs. of  2 variables:
#>  $ a: int  1 2 3
#>  $ b: int  10 11 12

# ... but this does.
n[n == "b"] <- "new b"
names(a) <- n
str(a)
#> 'data.frame':    3 obs. of  2 variables:
#>  $ a    : int  1 2 3
#>  $ new b: int  10 11 12

^{Created on 2024-05-02 with reprex v2.1.0}

[dankelley]

I see that is is an error (see below from an SBE manual) and I'll make the fix once I see an issue. I can also set up the issue myself but it's nice to see issues from users.

[coffm049-2]

Thank you for checking up on this! I've made the issue

#2211 (comment)

[rvaillancourt]

Hi everyone, I wonder if someone can help me. I am trying to calculate and display error for the mean values created using binAverage function in OCE. I want to calculate the standard deviation of each bin and then display it on an xy plot, preferably as shaded areas above and below the mean line. Any ideas?

[richardsc]

Hi @rvaillancourt -- sorry for the slow reply on this. @dankelley and I don't always get notifications about the "Discussions" from Github for some reason.

If you don't mind, I'd like to move your question over to the "Issues" tab, to better keep track of it as a distinct topic. Things tend to get lost if they are just buried in this "Welcome to oce" discussion.

Thanks for using oce! 😄