read.rwl {dplR} | R Documentation |
This function reads in a Tucson (decadal) format file of ring widths (.rwl).
read.rwl(fname, header=NULL)
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 |
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.
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.
Andy Bunn