aphirak / garmin-tcx-parser

Parses Garmin .tcx files

#Garmin TCX Parser for R

Prerequisites:

• a working version of R (available at http://cran.r-project.org/)
• R library package "tcltk2" - this is simple tool for interactively choosing directories and files
• a .tcx file from a garmin device (this code has been tested with a tcx file from a Garmin Forerunner 310XT)

Output: Dataframe in the following formats:

• .txt file (for easy access)
• .rdata (for use within R)

Dataframe columns:

1. "lap" - points at which lap marker was pressed on watch
2. "time" - date and time in standard format
3. "UNIXtime" - UNIX time
4. "hrbpm" - heart rate (beats per minute)
5. "hrbpmx" - interpolated heart rate
6. "lat" - latitude
7. "latx" - interpolated latitude
8. "lon" - longitude
9. "lonx" - interpolated longitude
10. "alt" - altitude
11. "dist" - cumulative distance (meters)
12. "dist_interpol" - interpolated distance
13. "p2p_dist" - point to point distance (from previous to current point)
14. "tot_dist" - cumulative distance interpolated
15. "speed" - speed (km/hr)

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Please direct comments/queries to Andrew J. White - [email protected]

You can cite this software using:

White, A.J. & Kleinböhl, D. (2013). TCX Parser: An R library for parsing Garmin TCX files. Retrieved from https://github.com/shiroandy/garmin-tcx-parser.