EGRET (version 3.0.7)

readUserDaily: Import user daily data for EGRET analysis

Description

Imports data from a user-supplied file, and converts it to a Daily data frame, appropriate for WRTDS calculations.

Usage

readUserDaily(filePath, fileName, hasHeader = TRUE, separator = ",",
  qUnit = 1, verbose = TRUE, interactive = NULL)

Value

A data frame 'Daily' with the following columns:

Name	Type	Description
Date	Date	Date
Q	numeric	Discharge in m^3/s
Julian	integer	Number of days since Jan. 1, 1850
Month	integer	Month of the year [1-12]
Day	integer	Day of the year [1-366]
DecYear	numeric	Decimal year
MonthSeq	integer	Number of months since January 1, 1850
Qualifier	character	Qualifying code
i	integer	Index of days, starting with 1
LogQ	numeric	Natural logarithm of Q
Q7	numeric	7 day running average of Q
Q30	numeric	30 day running average of Q

Arguments

filePath

character specifying the path to the file

fileName

character name of file to open

hasHeader

logical true if the first row of data is the column headers

separator

character character that separates data cells

qUnit

number 1 is cubic feet per second, 2 is cubic meters per second, 3 is 10^3 cubic feet per second, and 4 is 10^3 cubic meters per second

verbose

logical specifying whether or not to display progress message

interactive

logical deprecated. Use 'verbose' instead

Examples

filePath <- system.file("extdata", package="EGRET")
fileName <- "ChoptankRiverFlow.txt"
Daily <- readUserDaily(filePath,fileName,separator="\t")