phonTools (version 0.2-2.0)

loadsound: Load WAV files into R

Description

A function which allows WAV files to be loaded into R.

Usage

loadsound (filename)

Arguments

filename

A string indicating the file name of the WAV file to be loaded. If no filename is provided, a dialog box will open allowing the user to select a file.

Value

• An object of class 'sound', a list containing the elements:
• filename
  A vector containing the filename of the WAV file.
• fs
  The sampling frequency of the sound.
• duration
  The duration of the sound, in milliseconds.
• sound
  A vector of numeric values representing the sampled sound.

Details

The function is only compatible with 8 and 16 bit mono WAV files. The function returns a 'sound object'. Many of the functions included in this package interact with 'sound' objects.

References

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/422/projects/WaveFormat/

Examples

## Use the command below to select a WAV file to load into R
## sound = loadsound ()

## sound
## plot (sound)
## spectrogram (sound)