Duplicate Profiles of a SoilProfileCollection

Source: R/duplicate.R

A simple function to duplicate the contents of a SoilProfileCollection object. Old profile IDs are saved as a site-level attribute (oldID) and new IDs are generated using a numeric serial number.

duplicate(x, times = 3, oldID = ".oldID")

Arguments

x

a SoilProfileCollection object with 1 or more profiles

times

requested number of copies

oldID

site-level attribute used to store the original profile IDs

Value

a SoilProfileCollection object

Author

D.E. Beaudette

Examples


# sample data
data('sp4')

# promote to SPC
depths(sp4) <- id ~ top + bottom

# duplicate each profile 2 times
d <- duplicate(sp4, times = 2)

# graphical check
par(mar = c(0, 0, 3, 1))
plotSPC(d, color = 'Ca', width = 0.25)