IgorR

Introduction

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.

Installation

Standard Install

Install the release version from CRAN

install.packages('IgorR')

Github Install

To install the latest development version from github

# install hadley's devtools if required
if(!require('devtools')) install.packages('devtools')
devtools::install_github('jefferis/IgorR')

Development Install

To checkout a version that can be used for development (RStudio is strongly recommended), in your terminal application.

cd /some/suitable/dir
git clone https://github.com/jefferis/IgorR.git

In R

install.packages('devtools') # install hadley's devtools
library(devtools)
load_all('/some/suitable/dir/IgorR')
test()

#hack
load_all()

# ready for release
check()
build_win() # test for Windows
release()

Details

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.