LoadApneaWFDB {RHRV}R Documentation

Loads apnea episodes for WFDB record

Description

Loads the information of apnea episodes and stores it into the data structure containing the beat positions and other related information

Usage

LoadApneaWFDB(HRVData, RecordName, RecordPath = ".", Tag = "APNEA", 
		verbose=NULL)

Arguments

HRVData

Data structure that stores the beats register and information related to it

RecordName

The WFDB file to be used

RecordPath

The path of the WFDB file

Tag

to include APNEA episodes

verbose

Deprecated argument maintained for compatibility, use SetVerbose() instead

Value

Returns HRVData, the structure that contains beat positions register and other related information and apnea episodes information

Note

An example including all the steps to download a record from Physionet and load its content and the Apnea annotations is included below:

dirorig <- "http://www.physionet.org/physiobank/database/apnea-ecg/"
files <- c("a01.hea", "a01.apn", "a01.qrs")
filesorig <- paste(dirorig, files, sep = "")
for (i in 1:length(files))
download.file(filesorig[i], files[i])
hrv.data <- CreateHRVData()
hrv.data <- LoadBeatWFDB(hrv.data, "a01")
hrv.data <- LoadApneaWFDB(hrv.data, "a01")

Author(s)

M. Lado, A. Mendez, D. Olivieri, L. Rodriguez, X. Vila

References

L. Rodriguez-Linares, A. Mendez, M. Lado, D. Olivieri, X. Vila, I. Gomez-Conde, "An open source tool for heart rate variability spectral analysis", Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 103, 39-50, doi:10.1016/j.cmpb.2010.05.012 (2011)


[Package RHRV version 4.2.7 Index]