Read a TCX (Garmin Training Center) workout file

Parses the trackpoints of a .tcx workout (the common Garmin Connect / Strava export) into a tidy data frame: time, position, altitude, distance, heart rate and cadence/speed where present.

Usage

readTCX(path, tz = "UTC")

Arguments

path

Path to a .tcx file.

tz

Time zone for the parsed timestamps (default "UTC").

Value

A data frame of trackpoints (time, lat, lon, altitude_m, distance_m, hr, cadence, speed), time-ordered, with the activity sport in attr(, "sport").

References

Garmin Training Center XML (TCX) schema.

See also

readGPX(), readFitbit()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
tp <- readTCX("run.tcx")
plot(tp$lon, tp$lat)     # the route
} # }