proximate_read_cal: Read model parameters from ProxiMate .cal files

In proximetricsR: Spectral Preprocessing and Chemometric Calibration of NIR Sensors

Read model parameters from ProxiMate .cal files

Description

Reads the metadata and model parameters from one or more .cal files generated by BUCHI ProxiMate sensors. The function extracts the preprocessing recipe, regression method, PLS weights, loadings, scores, intercepts, and bias terms required to project new spectra into the score space and produce predictions. Spectral regression coefficients are not retrieved directly; predictions are computed in the score space via predict.read_cal.

Usage

proximate_read_cal(file, ignore_version = FALSE)

## S3 method for class 'read_cal'
predict(object, newdata, get_comp = c("optimal", "all"),
        get_scores = FALSE, bias_index = 1, ...)

Arguments

file	a character vector of .cal file paths.
ignore_version	a logical. If FALSE (default), files with no version information or created with NIRWise PLUS prior to version 1.0 raise an error. If TRUE, such files are read with a warning instead; predictions from these files may deviate from those produced on the instrument.
object	an object of class read_cal as returned by proximate_read_cal().
newdata	a matrix of new spectral data to predict from. Column names must be coercible to the wavelengths used in the model.
get_comp	a character string. Either "optimal" (default) to return predictions only for the optimal number of components, or "all" to return predictions for every available component.
get_scores	a logical indicating whether PLS scores should be returned alongside predictions. Default is FALSE.
bias_index	the index of the bias to be applied in the list of biases. These are generated in NIRWise PLUS based on the number of files containing the calibration data. Default = 1.
...	not currently used.

Value

For proximate_read_cal(), a list of class "read_cal" with the following elements:

• summary: a data.frame describing each model:

  • Property: name of the response variable.

  • Preprocessing: sequence of preprocessing steps applied (without parameters).

  • Method: regression method used.

  • Factors: number of PLS components used.

  • Cross-validation: number of cross-validation segments. A value of 0 indicates no cross-validation was used.

  • Auto-skip: logical indicating whether automatic outlier removal (auto-delete) was applied during calibration.

• meta_param: a list with one element per model containing the preprocessing recipe (precipe), the indices of automatically removed observations (auto_skip), and a logical indicating whether sample aggregation was applied (aggregate).

• file_info: a list with one element per model containing the file paths of the spectral data used for calibration (files) and the indices of manually skipped observations per file (skipped_indices).

• models: a list with one element per model containing all parameters required for prediction: wavelengths, preprocessing recipe, number of factors, mean-centering vector, scores, score scale factors, PLS weights, loadings, biases, intercept, and target values.

For predict.read_cal(), a list with the following elements:

• predictions: predicted values for each model in object.

• distances: scaled score distances for each sample and model, which can be used to assess how well a new sample is represented by the model.

• scores: only returned when get_scores = TRUE. The projection of new samples into the PLS score space.

Author(s)

Leonardo Ramirez-Lopez and Claudio Orellano

See Also

proximate_recalibrate_nax, proximate_read_nax

proximetricsR documentation built on Sept. 4, 2026, 5:08 p.m.