Find Raw files based on Time and Date, providing folder containing all Raw files

Source: R/getRaws.R

This functions generates datetime object based on the raw data filenames and selects the required raw files according to a user defined start and end time

getRaws(dir, StartDate, StartTime, EndDate, EndTime, tzraw = "UTC",
  tzinp = "UTC", timebuffer = 0, fileSlope = FALSE)

Arguments

dir

= path [character]
StartDate

[character] Date under the shape of YYYYMMDD (example: 20171127)
StartTime

[character] Time under the shape of HHMMSS (example: 085617)
EndDate

[character] Date under the shape of YYYYMMDD (example: 20171127)
EndTime

[character] Time under the shape of HHMMSS (example: 085617)
tzraw

="UTC"[character] timezone under which the raw files were recorded e.g.UTC or Australia/Brisbane or AEST
tzinp

="UTC"[character] timezone of the entered start and end points e.g.UTC or Australia/Brisbane or AEST
timebuffer

= 0 [numeric in seconds] add a buffer around the times for which files should be selected
fileSlope

= FALSE [boolean] If TRUE the raw file that partly falls within the start of the time interval.

Value

charater array with raw data filenames

Note

Dependencies: lubridate - Requires lubridate package for easy computation of time intervals

Examples

# NOT RUN {
StartDate = 20170901
StartTime = "080917"
EndDate = 20170901
EndTime = 172356
rawdir = "F:\\RawFolder\\"
getRaws(dir,StartDate, StartTime,EndDate, EndTime, tzraw="UTC", tzinp="UTC")

# }