Read a text-file with data from a paleontological time-series
read.paleoTS(file = NULL, oldest = "first", reset.time = TRUE, ...)a paleoTS object
file name; if not supplied, an interactive window prompts the user to navigate to the text file
"first" if samples are in order from oldest to youngest, "last" if the opposite
logical; see as.paleoTS
other arguments, passed to read.table
This function reads a text file with a specified format and converts
it into a paleoTS object. It will often be the easiest way for users
to import their own data. The text file should have four columns without
headers, in this order: sample size, sample means, sample variances, sample
ages.
as.paleoTS