import_data {realTimeloads}

Load data from comma-delimited .txt files to list to be used in function hADCPLoads()

Description

Imports csv files to R, file names, variable names (and units) in csv text files must match variable names used in ExampleData.rda

Usage

import_data(data_folder)

Arguments

data_folder

file path to folder containing .txt csv files with format that matches files in extdata package folder

Value

list with data frames used in package code, see ?ExampleData for list format

Warning

Synthetic data used in ExampleData only has backscatter for one beam ("ADCP_Echo_Intensity.txt"), for user data, one should have backscatter for two beams with following names: "ADCP_Echo_Intensity_Beam_1.txt" and "ADCP_Echo_Intensity_Beam_2.txt"

Package arguments require variable names and units to match the names and variable units provided (see ?ExampleData, or .txt files in extdata folder)

Suggest saving all csv files in .txt format to ensure time format is not changed when editing/saving csv in Excel

Author(s)

Daniel Livsey (2023) ORCID: 0000-0002-2028-6128

References

Livsey, D.N. (in review). National Industry Guidelines for hydrometric monitoring–Part 12: Application of acoustic Doppler velocity meters to measure suspended-sediment load. Bureau of Meteorology. Melbourne, Australia.

See Also

hADCPLoads Process acoustic backscatter from hADCP and compute load using InputData from import_Data()

Examples

InputData <- import_data() # loads text files provided in package folder "extdata"