writeGPDascii: Reads GPD ascii files

In stratigraph: Toolkit for the plotting and analysis of stratigraphic and palaeontological data

Description

Writes ascii files in the Global Pollen Database (GPD) ascii format.

Usage

writeGPDascii(x, counts = NULL, depths = NULL,
              sample.names = NULL,
              absolute.ages = NULL,
              taxa = NULL,
              short.names = NULL,
              tax.cat = NULL,
              metadata = NULL,
              output.file = NULL, ...)
writeTilia(...)

Arguments

x	an object of class strat.column.
counts	NULL
depths	NULL
sample.names	NULL
absolute.ages	NULL
taxa	NULL
short.names	NULL
tax.cat	NULL
metadata	NULL
output.file	if NULL (the default), print output to the terminal
...	not currently used.

Value

Returns invisibly.

Author(s)

Walton Green

References

Eric Grimm?

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/gpd.html http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/pollen/gpdascii.html

See Also

readGPDascii, plot.strat.column

Examples

## Note that this example will only work when executed on a
##   computer connected to the net

## Not run: 
URL <- paste('ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/pollen/',
             'asciifiles/fossil/ascfiles/gpd/rogerslk.txt', sep = '')
rogerslk <- readGPDascii(URL)
cat(writeGPDascii(rogerslk))

## End(Not run)

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