Generate Soil Depth Class Matrix

Description

Generate a boolean matrix of soil depth classes from a SoilProfileCollection object.

Usage

getSoilDepthClass(f, depth.classes = c(very.shallow = 25, 
shallow = 50, mod.deep = 100, deep = 150, very.deep = 1000), ...)

Arguments

Value

a data.frame containing soil depth and depth class for each profile, see examples

Author(s)

D.E. Beaudette and J.M. Skovlin

See Also

estimateSoilDepth

Examples

data(sp1)
depths(sp1) <- id ~ top + bottom

# generate depth-class matrix
sdc <- getSoilDepthClass(sp1, name='name', top='top', bottom='bottom')

# inspect
head(sdc)

##     id depth very.shallow shallow mod.deep  deep very.deep depth.class
## 1 P001    89        FALSE   FALSE     TRUE FALSE     FALSE    mod.deep
## 2 P002    59        FALSE   FALSE     TRUE FALSE     FALSE    mod.deep
## 3 P003    67        FALSE   FALSE     TRUE FALSE     FALSE    mod.deep
## 4 P004    62        FALSE   FALSE     TRUE FALSE     FALSE    mod.deep
## 5 P005    68        FALSE   FALSE     TRUE FALSE     FALSE    mod.deep
## 6 P006   200        FALSE   FALSE    FALSE FALSE      TRUE   very.deep

# join back into sp1 as site-level data
site(sp1) <- sdc

## Not run: 
##D # sample data
##D data(gopheridge, package='soilDB')
##D 
##D getSoilDepthClass(gopheridge)
## End(Not run)