"Empty" profiles are used as placeholders for positions in a SoilProfileCollection
These profiles result from operations that remove or extract portions of horizons
from source profiles.
Usage
# S4 method for class 'SoilProfileCollection'
isEmpty(object, ...)
Arguments
- object
A SoilProfileCollection
- ...
Additional arguments not used.
Value
logical. Vector of length equal to number of profiles in object
. Returns TRUE
when a profile has one horizon with NA
top and bottom depths
Details
In a SoilProfileCollection
an empty profile occurs when it has one horizon,
with NA
top and bottom depths. Generally all non-profile ID site and horizon-level
values are all also NA
, but only the depths are checked by isEmpty()
.