read.fitstab: Read FITS Table
Description
The mid-level function 'read.fitstab' allows FITS binary tables to be read directly into R.Usage
read.fitstab(file, hdu = 2, strip = c(" ","'"," "), maxlines = 50000)
Arguments
hdu
header and data unit to be read
strip
lead/trail characters stripped from header 'value' data
maxlines
maximum number of header lines
Value
A matrix of data corresponding to the original FITS table, with column names labelled appropriately.
Details
The mid-level function 'read.fitstab' is a wrapper around 'read.fits', and provides a more simplistic output of that routine. Note that the FITS table is usually stored in the 2nd HDU of a FITS file, hence the default setting of hdu for this function.
See Also
The astronomy package: astro.