get.tabledata {RArcInfo}R Documentation

Function for importing the contents of a table file into R

Description

This function reads and imports into R the contents of a table file.

Usage

get.tabledata(infodir, tablename)

Arguments

infodir Info directory where there is a file called arc.dat
tablename The name of the table from which we want to import the data

Value

This function returns a data frame in which each column stores the data of a field from the table. The columns are not assigned the names of the fields, but this can be got with the get.tablefields function.

References

More information about this kind of data can be found at http://pages.infinit.net/danmo/e00/docs/v7_bin_cover.html.


[Package RArcInfo version 0.4-7 Index]