Hello,
To me as a beginner, every problem looks big. Below is what I was asked to
do as part of a code that will solve my problem. I have used read.table to
read my data into R and assigned the column names with colnames(dat)<- ... .
But to go from txt<-" to the last " at the bottom of the table below is what
I am unable to do. Could anybody please tell me how to type or arrive at
txt<-"
y m d count
..................
..................
"
in R.
Thank you for your attention
Ogbos
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Here is a more extensive example that shows also how to get date or counts
associated to pits/peaks:

txt <- "
y  m   d  count
93 02 07 3974.6
93 02 08 3976.7
93 02 09 3955.2
93 02 10 3955.0
93 02 11 3971.8
93 02 12 3972.8
93 02 13 3961.0
93 02 14 3972.8
93 02 15 4008.0
93 02 16 4004.2
93 02 17 3981.2
93 02 18 3996.8
93 02 19 4028.2
93 02 20 4029.5
93 02 21 3953.4
93 02 22 3857.3
93 02 23 3848.3
93 02 24 3869.8
93 02 25 3898.1
93 02 26 3920.5
93 02 27 3936.7
93 02 28 3931.9
"
con <- textConnection(txt)
dat <- read.table(con, header = TRUE)
close(con)
dat$date <- as.Date(paste(dat$y, dat$m, dat$d), format = "%y %m %d")

library(pastecs)
tp <- turnpoints(dat$count)

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