pp2array: pp2array

In marta-vidalgarcia/morpho.tools.GM: A set of functions to help with geometric morphometric analyses of 3D data

pp2array

Description

This function inputs *pp files into an array of dimensions p, k, n

Usage

pp2array(dir = NULL, ID = NULL, string_del = NULL, save.txt = FALSE)

Arguments

dir	Optional argument. Directory where the *.pp files are. Default (NULL) is the current working directory.
ID	Optional argument for specimens IDs. The default (NULL) is the file names.
string_del	Optional argument. Indicates pattern in the specimens names to be deleted. Use only if ID = NULL.
save.txt	Optional argument. Indicates whether to also save *.txt files with the landmark coordinates.

Value

This function returns an array of dimensions (p, k, n), in which p is the number of landmarks, k = 3 (number of dimensions), and n is the number of specimens.

Author(s)

Marta Vidal-Garcia

Examples

# array <- pp2array()
# If we have other *.pp files in another directory and with the suffix "skull"
# For example: "spec1_skull.pp", "spec2_skull.pp", "spec3_skull.pp", etc.
# dir <- "~/Documents/skull_LMs")
# skull_array <- pp2array(dir = skull_dir, string_del="_skull", save.tag = TRUE) # will save *.tag landmark files

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