How can I use Excels import feature to read signal files?
You can’t, because Excel doesn’t know how to figure out which of the many supported formats is used in any given signal file, because it can’t understand any of those formats in any case, and because signal files are almost always orders of magnitude larger than any spreadsheet that Excel can handle. Spreadsheets are not suitable for studying, visualizing, or analyzing digitized signals; many better tools are freely available in PhysioToolkit. If, despite the above, you still wish to read a piece of a signal file into a spreadsheet, see How can I read signal files?. Top Where do I get rdsamp? It’s part of the free, open source WFDB Software Package. Both C sources and binaries for several popular operating systems are available. Top How do I use rdsamp? Install it, then type rdsamp for a brief summary of options. For details, see rdsamp(1) in the WFDB Applications Guide. The output of rdsamp is in text format. Unless you have used the -v option, the output contains data only (no column
