Provides function to read data from the 'Igor Pro' data analysis program by Wavemetrics. The data formats supported are 'Igor' packed experiment format (pxp) and 'Igor' binary wave (ibw). See: http://www.wavemetrics.com/ for details. Also includes functions to load special pxp files produced by the 'Igor Pro' 'Neuromatic' and 'Nclamp' packages for recording and analysing neuronal data. See http://www.neuromatic.thinkrandom.com/ for details.
The IgorR package for R provides routines to read binary files generated by Igor Pro.
This includes both the standalone .ibw Igor Binary Wave format (v2 and the latest v5) and the .pxp Packed Experiment Format including both waves and variables. In addition the package provides functions to read files generated by the Neuromatic analysis suite written by Jason Rothman for Igor Pro.
Install the release version from CRAN
install.packages('IgorR')
To install the latest development version from github
# install hadley's devtools if requiredif(!require('devtools')) install.packages('devtools')devtools::install_github('jefferis/IgorR')
To checkout a version that can be used for development (RStudio is strongly recommended), in your terminal application.
cd /some/suitable/dirgit clone https://github.com/jefferis/IgorR.git
In R
install.packages('devtools') # install hadley's devtoolslibrary(devtools)load_all('/some/suitable/dir/IgorR')test() #hackload_all() # ready for releasecheck()build_win() # test for Windowsrelease()
Details of the ibw file format were derived from the Igor Technical Note 003.
For those interested in the source code, ReadIgorBinary.R provides code for standard pxp and ibw files, while ReadNclamp.R provides routines to read packed experiment files generated by the Nclamp data acquisition package.