get.tablefields: Function for reading names of the table fields in the...

In RArcInfo: Functions to import data from Arc/Info V7.x binary coverages

Description

This function returns the names of the fields (and its type) in the table whose names are provided by the user.

Usage

get.tablefields(infodir,tablename)

Arguments

infodir	Info directory where there is a file called arc.dat
tablename	The name of the table from which we want to get the fields

Value

This function returns a data frame with the next fields (columns):

FieldName	The name of the field.
FieldType	This is an integer from 1 to 6 that explain the kind of data: 1Date 2Character String 3Integer (stored as a character string) 4Numeric (stored as a character string) 5Binary integer 6Binary float

RArcInfo documentation built on May 1, 2019, 10:26 p.m.