LoadBeatAscii function

Builds an array of beats positions from an ascii file

Builds an array of beats positions from an ascii file

Reads an ascii file with data of beat positions and stores the values in a data structure. A segment of a file can be loaded making use of the "starttime" and "endtime" arguments.

LoadBeatAscii(HRVData, RecordName, RecordPath=".", scale = 1, starttime=NULL,
      endtime=NULL, datetime = "1/1/1900 0:0:0", verbose = NULL)

Arguments

  • HRVData: Data structure that stores the beats register and information related to it
  • RecordName: Ascii file containing the beats to be loaded
  • RecordPath: The path of the file
  • scale: 1 if beat positions in seconds or 0.001 if beat positions in milliseconds
  • starttime: Beginning of the segment of file to load
  • endtime: End of the segment of file to load
  • datetime: Date and time (DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM:SS)
  • verbose: Deprecated argument maintained for compatibility, use SetVerbose() instead

Returns

Loads beats positions into the structure that contains RHRV information. The file containing the heartbeats positions must be a single column file with no headers. Each line should denote the occurrence time of each heartbeat. An example of a valid file could be the following:

0

0.3280001

0.7159996

1.124

1.5

1.88

(...)

References

L. Rodriguez-Linares, L., A.J. Mendez, M.J. Lado, D.N. Olivieri, X.A. Vila, and I. Gomez-Conde, "An open source tool for heart rate variability spectral analysis", Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 103(1):39-50, july 2011.

Author(s)

A. Mendez, L. Rodriguez, A. Otero, C.A. Garcia, X. Vila, M. Lado

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