This table is intended primarily to be read. However,
you may have other intentions for this table, so we provide a number of
options below so that you may generate as useful a table as possible.
Options not understood can be left unchanged.
Column 1 ... 3
Numeric gives both the grid values and the data values as
numbers; text gives times as month-year while
continuing to give the data as numbers. ISO8601 gives dates in that standard date format and is highly recommended, particularly for reading back into the Data Library.
Missing Data
You have the choice of skipping (i.e. omitting)
all lines that contain missing
data, blanking missing data (i.e. there will still be a line),
or marking missing data. The Missing Data
Marker lets you specify the missing data marker in that
marking case.
File Type
Each columnar table is available in five file formats.
html
will be displayed by your (table-aware) browser.
tsv (tab-separated-values)
entries will be separated by tab characters; two lines of header.
cvs (comma-separated-values)
entries will be separated by commas; one line of header.
R tsv
entries will be separated by tab characters; one
line of header. This format of tsv file is readable by R.
IGOR tsv
entries will be separated by tab characters; one
line of header that starts with a # sign. This format of tsv file is
favored by some graphics programs.
latex
a tabular element for including in a LaTeX document.
free
entries will be separated by spaces; two lines of header. This
works best for purely numeric data: names tend to have stray spaces.
Usable for SAS, for example.
End-of-Line Marker
The end-of-line marker option is there merely to help you if you have
problems: generously written programs will accept all three versions
so that you won't have to care.
You
can have either tab-separated-values or IGOR tsv files
loaded directly into a program by your WWW browser by
setting the helper for text/tab-separated-values to your favorite
spreadsheet or plotting program.
