read.rwl {dplR}R Documentation

Read Tucson Format Ring Width File

Description

This function reads in a Tucson (decadal) format file of ring widths (.rwl).

Usage

  read.rwl(fname, header=NULL)

Arguments

fname a character vector giving the file name of the rwl file.
header logical flag indicating whether the file has a header. If NULL then the function will attempt to determine if a header exists

Details

This reads in a standard rwl file as defined according to the standards of the ITRDB at http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/treeinfo.html. Despite the standards at the ITRDB, this occasionally fails due to formatting problems.

Value

A data.frame with the series in columns and the years as rows. The series ids are the column names and the years are the row names.

Author(s)

Andy Bunn


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