mergeData {RSurvey}R Documentation

Merge Time-stamped Data

Description

This function merges temporal data with the current time-stamped survey data.

Usage

mergeData(file = NULL)

Arguments

file either a character string naming a file or a connection.

Format

The tab delineated temporal file, ‘*.txt’, contains the following variables:
[,1] character date/time
[,2:] numeric state variables

The first [1,] and second [2,] rows are reserved for column descriptors and units, respectively. Units associated with date/time values are based on format character strings described in strptime.

Value

The cols and data.raw components of srvy.dat are replaced by the merged data set.

Note

This function is not currently accessible through a GUI.

Author(s)

Fisher, J. C.

See Also

approx

Examples

f <- system.file("RSurvey-ex/river.txt", package = "RSurvey")
con <- file(f, open = "r", encoding = "latin1")
d <- readFile(con)
srvy.dat("cols", d$cols)
srvy.dat("vars", d$vars)
srvy.dat("data.raw", d$dat)

f <- system.file("RSurvey-ex/river-temperature.txt", package = "RSurvey")
con <- file(f, open = "r", encoding = "latin1")
mergeData(con)
srvy.dat("cols")
srvy.dat("data.raw")

[Package RSurvey version 0.4.5 Index]