RArcInfo (version 0.3)

get.toldata: Function for importing the contents of a TOL file into R

Description

This function reads and imports into R the contents of a tolerance definition file.

Usage

get.toldata(datadir, coverage, filename="tol.adf")

Arguments

datadir

Directory under which all the coverages and a directory called 'info' are.

coverage

The name of the coverage we want to work with

filename

The name of the file in the coverage directory that stores the data. By default it is called 'tol.adf'. In some cases, when the values are stored in double precission, the tolerances are in a file whose name is 'par.adf'.

Value

• This function returns a data frame with the next fields (columns):
• Type
  A number from 1 to 10 showing the tolerance type.
• Status
  This field indicates whether the tolerance is active or not.
• Value
  Tolerance value.

References

More information about this kind of data can be found at http://pages.infinit.net/danmo/e00/docs/v7_bin_cover.html.