read_mnirs: Read _mnirs_ data from file

In mnirs: Muscle Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Processing and Analysis

Read mnirs data from file

Description

Import time-series data exported from common muscle NIRS (mNIRS) devices and return a tibble of class "mnirs" with the selected signal channels and metadata.

Usage

read_mnirs(
  file_path,
  nirs_channels = NULL,
  time_channel = NULL,
  event_channel = NULL,
  sample_rate = NULL,
  add_timestamp = FALSE,
  zero_time = FALSE,
  keep_all = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

file_path	Path of the data file to import. Supported file extensions are ".xlsx", ".xls", and ".csv".
nirs_channels	A character vector of one or more column names containing mNIRS signals to import. Names must match the file header exactly. If NULL (default), read_mnirs() attempts to detect the device from the file contents and use a known nirs_channel name. A named character vector can be used to rename columns on import, in the form c(renamed = "original_name").
time_channel	A character string giving the name of the time (or sample) column to import. The name must match the file header exactly. If NULL (default), read_mnirs() attempts to identify a time-like column automatically (by known device defaults and/or time-formatted values). A named character vector can be used to rename the column on import, in the form c(time = "original_name").
event_channel	An optional character string giving the name of an event/lap column to import. Names must match the file header exactly. A named character vector can be used to rename the column on import in the form c(event = "original_name").
sample_rate	An optional numeric sample rate in Hz. If left blank (NULL), the sample rate is estimated from time_channel (see Details).
add_timestamp	A logical. Default is FALSE. If TRUE and if the source data contain an absolute date-time (POSIXct) time value, will add a "timestamp" column in addition to the specified time_channel as a numeric time column.
zero_time	Logical. Default is FALSE. If TRUE, re-calculates numeric time_channel values to start from zero.
keep_all	Logical. Default is FALSE. Will keep only the channels explicitly specified in nirs_channels, time_channel, and event_channel. If TRUE will keep all columns found in the file data table. If no nirs_channels are specified and the file format is recognised, all columns in the file data table will be returned, as an exploratory option.
verbose	Logical. Default is TRUE. Display or silence (if FALSE) warnings and information messages helpful for troubleshooting. Ad global default can be set via options(mnirs.verbose = FALSE).

Details

Header detection

read_mnirs() searches the file for a header row containing the requested channel names. The header row does not need to be the first row in the file.

• If duplicate column names exist, columns are matched in the order they appear and renamed with unique strings.

• Columns without a header name in the source file will be renamed to ⁠col_*⁠, where * is the numeric column number in which they appear in the file (e.g. col_6). This applies to Artinis Oxysoft event label columns, which do not have a column header and must be identified manually.

Renaming channels

A named character vector can be specified to rename nirs_channels, time_channel, and event_channel, in the form c(renamed = "original_name"). The "original_name" must match the contents of the file data table header row exactly.

Time parsing

time_channel will be converted to numeric for analysis.

• If time_channel is a date-time (POSIXct) format, it will be converted to numeric and re-based to start from 0, regardless of zero_time.

• Some devices export a sample index rather than time values. In those cases, if an export sample_rate is detected in the file metadata (e.g. Artinis Oxysoft exports), read_mnirs() will create or overwrite a "time" column in seconds derived from the sample index and the detected sample_rate.

Sample rate

If sample_rate is not specified, it is estimated from differences in time_channel. If time_channel is actually a sample index, as described above, this may erroneously be estimated at 1 Hz. sample_rate should be specified explicitly in this case.

Data cleaning

Entirely empty rows and columns are removed. Invalid values (e.g. c(NaN, Inf)) are standardized to NA. A warning will be displayed when irregular sampling is detected (e.g. non-monotonic, repeated, or unequal time values), if verbose = TRUE.

Value

A tibble of class "mnirs". Metadata are stored as attributes and can be accessed with attributes(data).

Examples

read_mnirs(
    file_path = example_mnirs("moxy_ramp"), ## call an example data file
    nirs_channels = c(
        smo2_left = "SmO2 Live",            ## identify and rename channels
        smo2_right = "SmO2 Live(2)"
    ),
    time_channel = c(time = "hh:mm:ss"),    ## date-time format will be converted to numeric
    event_channel = NULL,                   ## leave blank if unused
    sample_rate = NULL,                     ## if blank, will be estimated from time_channel
    add_timestamp = FALSE,                  ## omit a date-time timestamp column
    zero_time = TRUE,                       ## recalculate time values from zero
    keep_all = FALSE,                       ## return only the specified data channels
    verbose = TRUE                          ## show warnings & messages
)

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