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spectrochempy.read_quadera

read_quadera(*paths, **kwargs)

Read a Pfeiffer Vacuum’s QUADERA mass spectrometer software file with extension .asc.

Parameters:

• *paths (str, Path object objects or valid urls, optional) – The data source(s) can be specified by the name or a list of name for the file(s) to be loaded:

  • e.g., ( filename1, filename2, …, kwargs )

  If the list of filenames are enclosed into brackets:

  • e.g., ( [filename1, filename2, …], kwargs )

  The returned datasets are merged to form a single dataset, except if merge is set to False.

• **kwargs (keyword parameters, optional) – See Other Parameters.

Returns:

object (NDDataset or list of NDDataset) – The returned dataset(s).

Other Parameters:

• timestamp (bool, optional, default: True) – Returns the acquisition timestamp as Coord. If set to False, returns the time relative to the acquisition time of the data

• content (bytes object, optional) – Instead of passing a filename for further reading, a bytes content can be directly provided as bytes objects. The most convenient way is to use a dictionary. This feature is particularly useful for a GUI Dash application to handle drag and drop of files into a Browser.

• csv_delimiter (str, optional, default: csv_delimiter) – Set the column delimiter in CSV file.

• description (str, optional) – A Custom description.

• directory (Path object objects or valid urls, optional) – From where to read the files.

• download_only (bool, optional, default: False) – Used only when url are specified. If True, only downloading and saving of the files is performed, with no attempt to read their content.

• merge (bool, optional, default: False) – If True and several filenames or a directory have been provided as arguments, then a single NDDataset with merged dataset (stacked along the first dimension) is returned. In the case not all datasets have compatible dimensions or types/origins, then several NDDatasets can be returned for different groups of compatible datasets.

• origin (str, optional) – If provided it may be used to define the type of experiment: e.g., ‘ir’, ‘raman’,.. or the origin of the data, e.g., ‘omnic’, ‘opus’, … It is often provided by the reader automatically, but can be set manually.

  It is used for instance whn reading directory with different types of files, for merging the datasets with compatible dimensions and different origin into different groups.

  It is also used when reading with the CSV protocol. In order to properly interpret CSV file it can be necessary to set the origin of the spectra. Up to now only 'omnic' and 'tga' have been implemented.

• pattern (str, optional) – A pattern to filter the files to read.

  Added in version 0.7.2.

• protocol (str, optional) – Protocol used for reading. It can be one of {'scp', 'omnic', 'opus', 'topspin', 'matlab', 'jcamp', 'csv', 'excel'}. If not provided, the correct protocol is inferred (whenever it is possible) from the filename extension.

• read_only (bool, optional, default: True) – Used only when url are specified. If True, saving of the files is performed in the current directory, or in the directory specified by the directory parameter.

• recursive (bool, optional, default: False) – Read also in subfolders.

• replace_existing (bool, optional, default: False) – Used only when url are specified. By default, existing files are not replaced so not downloaded.

• sortbydate (bool, optional, default: True) – Sort multiple filename by acquisition date.

See also

read

Generic reader inferring protocol from the filename extension.

read_zip

Read Zip archives (containing spectrochempy readable files)

read_dir

Read an entire directory.

read_opus

Read OPUS spectra.

read_labspec

Read Raman LABSPEC spectra (.txt).

read_omnic

Read Omnic spectra (.spa, .spg, .srs).

read_soc

Read Surface Optics Corps. files (.ddr , .hdr or .sdr).

read_galactic

Read Galactic files (.spc).

read_topspin

Read TopSpin Bruker NMR spectra.

read_csv

Read CSV files (.csv).

read_jcamp

Read Infrared JCAMP-DX files (.jdx, .dx).

read_matlab

Read Matlab files (.mat, .dso).

read_carroucell

Read files in a directory after a carroucell experiment.

read_wire

Read REnishaw Wire files (.wdf).

Notes

Currently the acquisition time is that of the first channel as the timeshift of other channels are typically within few seconds, and the data of other channels are NOT interpolated Todo: check with users whether data interpolation should be made

Examples

>>> scp.read_quadera('msdata/ion_currents.asc')
NDDataset: [float64] A (shape: (y:16975, x:10))