Import measurement data produced by a Daybreak TL/OSL reader into R

Import a TXT-file (ASCII file) or a DAT-file (binary file) produced by a Daybreak reader into R. The import of the DAT-files is limited to the file format described for the software TLAPLLIC v.3.2 used for Daybreak models 1100 and 1150, and for FLConsole (any release) for Daybreak models 11xx and 2200.

Usage

read_Daybreak2R(file, raw = FALSE, verbose = TRUE, txtProgressBar = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

file: character or list (required): name of one or multiple .DAT or .txt files (URLs are supported); it can be the path to a directory, in which case the function tries to detect and import all files with .txt extension.
raw: logical (with default): if the input is a DAT-file (binary) a data.table::data.table instead of the RLum.Analysis object can be returned for debugging purposes.
verbose: logical (with default): enable/disable output to the terminal.
txtProgressBar: logical (with default): enable/disable txtProgressBar.
...: not in use, for compatibility reasons only

Value

A list of RLum.Analysis objects (each per position) is returned.

Note

[BETA VERSION] This function still needs to be tested properly. In particular the function has underwent only very rough tests using a few files.

Function version

0.4.1

Author

Sebastian Kreutzer, F2.1 Geophysical Parametrisation/Regionalisation, LIAG - Institute for Applied Geophysics (Germany)
Andrzej Bluszcz, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice (Poland)
Antoine Zink, C2RMF, Palais du Louvre, Paris (France)

The ASCII-file import is based on a suggestion by William Amidon and Andrew Louis Gorin. , RLum Developer Team

How to cite

Kreutzer, S., Bluszcz, A., Zink, A., 2026. read_Daybreak2R(): Import measurement data produced by a Daybreak TL/OSL reader into R. Function version 0.4.1. 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., Bluszcz, A., 2026. Luminescence: Comprehensive Luminescence Dating Data Analysis. R package version 1.2.1. https://r-lum.github.io/Luminescence/

Examples


if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
file <- system.file("extdata/Daybreak_TestFile.txt", package = "Luminescence")
temp <- read_Daybreak2R(file)
} # }