read_data_Oxylab: Binds desired O2 view files together
In padpadpadpad/TeamPhytoplankton: For studies into thermal adaptation

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Takes a list of files and binds them together at the desired number of seconds. If you have a load of files all starting at the same number of seconds (eg first light on at 180 seconds) the code will cut all the data at that point.

1	read_data_Oxylab(file.list, start.time, cat)

`file.list`	A list of O2 view files
`start.time`	The row at which you want data to be collected from
`cat`	whether you want the files printed to the console as they progress

O2 view files unfortunately do not have continuous values in the Light column. Instead only the changes in light are recorded. This function completes the light column by taking the last value in the column and filling all the rows until the next value.

After running the code you are left with a four column data frame (O2, time, light, identifier)

identifier - the identifier is the name of each file without the extension added. So I cannot stress the importance of having logical names for each file!

a dataframe of the combined Oxylab files with a column identifying each file

Daniel Padfield

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Used with ldply, it takes each value of the list and does the function on that data, before combining it all into a single dataframe.

compiled.data <- ldply(list.of.my.files, read_data_Oxylab, start.time = 120)