Ingest Campbell Scientific Logger data

ingest_campbell ingests data from Campbell Scientific dataloggers that are stored in the TAO5 file format with a .dat extension All ingest functions use the source file's base name as an identifying column to track provenance and relate data and metadata read from files.

ingest_campbell(
  input.source,
  export.header = TRUE,
  add.units = TRUE,
  add.measurements = TRUE
)

Arguments

input.source	Character indicating the .dat Campbell Scientific File.
export.header	A logical indicating if header information is written to a temporary file that can be restored using ingest_header(input.source).
add.units	Logical indicating if add.units specified in the data file should be appended to the end of the variable names specified in the data file, defaults to TRUE.
add.measurements	Logical indicating if add.measurements type (Avg, Smp, etc) specified in the data file should be appended to the start of the variable names specified in the data file, defaults to TRUE.

Value

A dataframe. If export.header = TRUE a temporary file is created for the header data. See ingest_header for more information.

Details

The TIMESTAMP column will be returned as an POSIXct column.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
campbell_file <- system.file("example_data", "campbell_scientific_tao5.dat", package = "ingestr")
cs_data <- ingest_campbell(input.source = campbell_file)
}