
Read '.DAT' file(s) saved by modern Campbell Scientific loggers.
Source:R/read-csi-dat.r
read_csi_dat.Rd
Reads and parses the header of a processed data file as output by the PC400 or PC200W programmes extracting variable names, units and quantities from the header. Uses the comment attribute to store the metadata.
Usage
read_csi_dat(
file,
geocode = NULL,
label = NULL,
data_skip = 0,
n_max = Inf,
locale = readr::default_locale(),
na = c("", "NA", "NAN"),
...
)
Arguments
- file
Path to file as a character string.
- geocode
A data frame with columns
lon
andlat
used to set attribute"where.measured"
.- label
character string, but if
NULL
the value offile
is used, and ifNA
the "what.measured" attribute is not set.- data_skip
integer Number of records (rows) to skip from the actual data block.
- n_max
integer Maximum number of records to read.
- locale
The locale controls defaults that vary from place to place. The default locale is US-centric (like R), but you can use
locale
to create your own locale that controls things like the default time zone, encoding, decimal mark, big mark, and day/month names.- na
character Vector of strings to interpret as missing values. Set this option to character() to indicate no missing values.
- ...
Further named arguments currently passed to
read_csv()
.
Value
read_csi_dat()
returns a tibble::tibble
object.
Note
This function is not useful for .DAT and .PRN files from old CSI loggers and software. Those were simple files, lacking metadata, which was stored in separate .FLD files.