read.fitshdr: Read FITS Header
In astro: Astronomy Functions, Tools and Routines

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The mid-level function 'read.fitshdr' allows FITS headers to be read directly into R.

1 2	read.fitshdr(file, hdu = 1, comments = TRUE, strip = c(" ","'"," "), maxlines = 50000)

`file`	file name
`hdu`	header and data unit to be read
`comments`	output header comments?
`strip`	lead/trail characters stripped from header 'value' data
`maxlines`	maximum number of header lines

The mid-level function 'read.fitshdr' is a wrapper around 'read.fits', and provides a more simplistic output of that routine.

A matrix of data corresponding to the original FITS image header, with two columns ('key' and 'value') and an optional third column ('comment'), should comments = TRUE (default).

Lee Kelvin <lee.kelvin@uibk.ac.at>

The astronomy package: astro.

astro documentation built on May 2, 2019, 2:14 a.m.