convert_BIN2CSV function

Export Risoe BIN-file(s) to CSV-files

This function is a wrapper function around the functions read_BIN2R and write_RLum2CSV and it imports a Risoe BIN-file and directly exports its content to CSV-files. If nothing is set for the argument path

(write_RLum2CSV ) the input folder will become the output folder.

convert_BIN2CSV(file, ...)

Arguments

• file: character (required ): name of the BIN-file to be converted to CSV-files
• ...: further arguments that will be passed to the function read_BIN2R and write_RLum2CSV

Returns

The function returns either a CSV-file (or many of them) or for the option export == FALSE a list comprising objects of type data.frame and matrix

Function version

0.1.0

Examples

##transform Risoe.BINfileData values to a list
data(ExampleData.BINfileData, envir = environment())
convert_BIN2CSV(subset(CWOSL.SAR.Data, POSITION == 1), export = FALSE)

## Not run:

##select your BIN-file
file <- file.choose()

##convert
convert_BIN2CSV(file)
## End(Not run)

See Also

RLum.Analysis , RLum.Data , RLum.Results , utils::write.table , write_RLum2CSV , read_BIN2R

Author(s)

Sebastian Kreutzer, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University (Germany) , RLum Developer Team

How to cite

Kreutzer, S., 2025. convert_BIN2CSV(): Export Risoe BIN-file(s) to CSV-files. Function version 0.1.0. In: Kreutzer, S., Burow, C., Dietze, M., Fuchs, M.C., Schmidt, C., Fischer, M., Friedrich, J., Mercier, N., Philippe, A., Riedesel, S., Autzen, M., Mittelstrass, D., Gray, H.J., Galharret, J., Colombo, M., Steinbuch, L., Boer, A.d., 2025. Luminescence: Comprehensive Luminescence Dating Data Analysis. R package version 1.0.1. https://r-lum.github.io/Luminescence/