Check for "empty" profiles in a SoilProfileCollection

Source: R/SoilProfileCollection-methods.R

"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.

# S4 method for 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().