mc_data_formats: Formats of source data files

In myClim: Microclimatic Data Processing

Formats of source data files

Description

R object of class environment with the definitions how to parse specific microclimatic logger files. In case you would like to add new, unsupported logger, this is the place where the reading key is stored.

Usage

mc_data_formats

Format

An object of class environment of length 3.

Details

Package myClim support formats TOMST, TOMST_join and HOBO. The environment object is stored in ./data/mc_data_formats.rda.

TOMST

TOMST data format has defined structure. Expected name of data file is in format data_\<serial_number\>_\<x\>.csv. Value serial_number can be automatically detected from file name. Datetime is in UTC and is stored in col 2. Temperature values are stored in col 3-5. Moisture () Supported logger types are TMS (for TMS-3/TMS-4), ThermoDataLogger (for Thermologger), Dendrometer and TMS_L45 (for TMS-4 Long 45cm).

TOMST_join

TOMST_join data format is used by output files from JoinTMS.exe software and from tupomanager.exe (TMS-1). Datetime in col 4, temperatures in col 5-7, moisture in col 8.

HOBO

HOBO data format is export format from software HOBOware of Onset company for HOBO U23 Pro v2 loggers (Temperature/RH). Format is very variable and can be adjusted by user in preferences of HOBOware. Strucuture of HOBO files format can be partly detected automatically from header of data. Format of date-time (date_format) must be set manually in myClim reading functions (mc_read_files(), mc_read_data()). Date and time separated in more columns is not supported in myClim reading. If time zone is not defined in header of HOBO txt or csv file and is not UTC, then tz_offset must be filled in while reading. UTF-8 encoding of HOBO file is required for reding to myClim.

See Also

mc_DataFormat, mc_TOMSTDataFormat, mc_TOMSTJoinDataFormat, mc_HOBODataFormat

myClim documentation built on Oct. 21, 2024, 5:07 p.m.