dplR (version 1.5.3)

read.rwl: Read Ring Width File

Description

This function reads in a file of ring widths (.rwl) in one of the available formats.

Usage

read.rwl(fname,
         format = c("auto", "tucson", "compact", "tridas", "heidelberg"),
         ...)

Arguments

fname

a character vector giving the file name of the rwl file.

format

a character vector giving the format. This must be "auto" (automatic detection), "tucson", "compact", "tridas" or "heidelberg". Automatic format detection is th

...

arguments specific to the function implementing the operation for the chosen format.

Value

• If a "tucson" or "compact" file is read (even through "auto"), returns 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. If a "tridas" file is read (even through "auto"), returns a list of results. See read.tridas for more information.

Details

This is a simple wrapper to the functions actually implementing the read operation.

See Also

read.tucson, read.compact, read.tridas, read.fh, write.rwl