Class definition to load data from 'BlackRock' 'Micro-systems' files

Currently only supports minimum file specification version 2.3. Please contact the package maintainer or 'RAVE' team if older specifications are needed

Value

absolute file path

absolute file paths

nothing

a data frame

a list of spike 'waveform' (without normalization)

a normalized numeric vector (analog signals with 'uV'

as the unit)

Public fields

block

character, session block ID

Active bindings

base_path

absolute base path to the file

version

'NEV' specification version

electrode_table

electrode table

sample_rate_nev_timestamp

sample rate of 'NEV' data packet time-stamps

has_nsx

named vector of 'NSx' availability

recording_duration

recording duration of each 'NSx'

sample_rates

sampling frequencies of each 'NSx' file

Methods

Public methods

• BlackrockFile$print()

• BlackrockFile$new()

• BlackrockFile$nev_path()

• BlackrockFile$nsx_paths()

• BlackrockFile$refresh_data()

• BlackrockFile$get_epoch()

• BlackrockFile$get_waveform()

• BlackrockFile$get_electrode()

• BlackrockFile$clone()

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Method print()

print user-friendly messages

Usage

BlackrockFile$print()

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Method new()

constructor

Usage

BlackrockFile$new(path, block, nev_data = TRUE)

Arguments

path

the path to 'BlackRock' file, can be with or without file extensions

block

session block ID; default is the file name

nev_data

whether to load comments and 'waveforms'

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Method nev_path()

get 'NEV' file path

Usage

BlackrockFile$nev_path()

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Method nsx_paths()

get 'NSx' file paths

Usage

BlackrockFile$nsx_paths(which = NULL)

Arguments

which

which signal file to get, or NULL to return all available paths, default is NULL; must be integers

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Method refresh_data()

refresh and load 'NSx' data

Usage

BlackrockFile$refresh_data(force = FALSE, verbose = TRUE, nev_data = FALSE)

Arguments

force

whether to force reload data even if the data has been loaded and cached before

verbose

whether to print out messages when loading

nev_data

whether to refresh 'NEV' extended data; default is false

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Method get_epoch()

get epoch table from the 'NEV' comment data packet

Usage

BlackrockFile$get_epoch()

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Method get_waveform()

get 'waveform' of the spike data

Usage

BlackrockFile$get_waveform()

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Method get_electrode()

get electrode data

Usage

BlackrockFile$get_electrode(electrode, nstype = NULL)

Arguments

electrode

integer, must be a length of one

nstype

which signal bank, for example, 'ns3', 'ns5'

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Method clone()

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage

BlackrockFile$clone(deep = FALSE)

Arguments

deep

Whether to make a deep clone.