Oce is a package in the R statistical language that helps Oceanographers do their work. Dan Kelley, the author of oce, is working on a book entitled Oceanographic Analysis with R that illustrates the use of oce for a wide variety of tasks.

The images shown below illustrate a few of the things Oce can do; click on an image to enlarge it, or click the link below the image to see the R code that created it.

CTD code

Acoustic Doppler Profiler code

Sealevel code

Echosounder code

The stable version of oce is provided on the R archives. It is installed from within R, just like other packages.

Users who are set up to build packages (which requires a C compiler, etc) may stay at the cutting edge by installing a development version. This may be done in several ways.

1. Download the source in tarball, or zipball, format, and build with the following OS command

   R CMD build oce
   R CMD install oce_0.9-10.tar.gz

   (where the version number may need adjustment)
2. Acquire the source through Git

   git clone https://dankelley@github.com/dankelley/oce.git

   and build this as described in #1.
3. Download and build in one step

   library(devtools)
   install_github("oce", "dankelley", "develop")

The github site can be used in many ways, the most common one being to report a bug or request a feature.