RArcInfo (version 0.4-12)

get.tabledata: Function for importing the contents of a table file into R

Description

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

Usage

get.tabledata(infodir, tablename)

Arguments

infodir
Info directory where there is a file called arc.dat
tablename
The name of the table from which we want to import the data

Value

This function returns a data frame in which each column stores the data of a field from the table. The columns are not assigned the names of the fields, but this can be got with the get.tablefields function.