This vignette outlines the design decisions that have been taken during the development of the lightr R package, and provides some of the reasoning, and possible pros and cons of each decision.
This document is primarily intended to be read by those interested in understanding the code within the package and for potential package contributors.
Architecture
This package has two-level of functions:
- low-level parsers to parse spectral data and metadata from a single
file, for which the appropriate parser is known. Users have to create
their own loops to parse multiple files, as described in
vignette("renormalise", package = "lightr"). - high-level parsers which automatically identify the relevant
parser(s) (via the
dispatch_parser()internal function) for a collection of files and consolidate all the data or metadata in a single rectangular data.frame.
Package architecture diagram