Read IFCB Header File and Extract Runtime Information

This function imports an IFCB header file (either from a local path or URL), extracts specific target values such as runtime and inhibittime, and returns them in a structured format. This is the R equivalent function of `IFCBxxx_readhdr` from the `ifcb-analysis` repository (Sosik and Olson 2007).

ifcb_get_runtime(hdr_file)

Arguments

hdr_file

A character string specifying the full path to the .hdr file or URL.

Value

A list (hdr) containing runtime, inhibittime, and runType (if available) extracted from the header file.

References

Sosik, H. M. and Olson, R. J. (2007), Automated taxonomic classification of phytoplankton sampled with imaging-in-flow cytometry. Limnol. Oceanogr: Methods 5, 204–216.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Example: Read and extract information from an IFCB header file
hdr_info <- ifcb_get_runtime("path/to/IFCB_hdr_file.hdr")
print(hdr_info)
}