Import orientation data from StraboSpot

Reads the XLS format export of field book data, the JSON project file, or the txt export of StraboMobile data from strabospot.org/my_data and creates a list with the metadata, and the line or plane orientations.

Usage

read_strabo_xls(file, tag_cols = FALSE, sf = TRUE)

read_strabo_mobile(file, sf = TRUE)

read_strabo_JSON(file, sf = TRUE)

Arguments

file: the name of the file which the data are to be read from.
tag_cols: logical. Whether the Tag columns should be summarized in a single column (may lead to duplicate rows).
sf: logical. Whether the output should be a spatial "sf" object using the Longitude and Latitude columns.

Value

list containing the following objects:

data: "tbl_df" object. Metadata.
spots: "tbl_df" object or "sf" if sf == TRUE. Locations and spot descriptions.
tags: "tbl_df" object. Tags and their descriptsions.
planar: Plane elements. Same row IDs as in data.
linear: Line elements. Same row IDs as in data.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# import from excel file
read_strabo_xls("path/to/my/file.xlsx")

# import from text file
read_strabo_mobile("path/to/my/file.txt")

# import from .json file
read_strabo_JSON("path/to/my/file.json")
} # }