Read all data from a spreadsheet according to a reporting template guide. The
data will be returned as a list with the optional elements keyvalue, table and
platedata if defined in the guide. The minimal and maximal template versions
of the guide mustbe compatible with that of the template in which the data
were recorded. Furthermore, the name of the template must match the template
name in the guide when when checkname is TRUE.
Usage
read_data(drfile, guide, checkname = FALSE)
Arguments
- drfile
Path to the data reporting file
- guide
A reporting template guide object or a path to a guide file
- checkname
Whether to check the name of the guide against that of the template
Value
A list with up to three elements
Details
The date atomicclass is a POSIXct object in R. Hence, we can convert this
object to a date string with format YYYY-MM-DD by using
format(as.POSIXct(x, tz=""), format="%Y-%m-%d").