The MeasureJ2X program reads and writes data in the format that is known as the 'decadal' or 'Tucson' format as documented in Appendix A. of the User Guide.
This is a format read by many analysis programs that are frequently used to analyze the measured data.
Excel format
One of the most common things that users want to do with the data is to view and analyze it using Excel.
To convert a file created by MeasureJ2X in the 'decadal' or 'Tucson' format to Excel, the 'YUX' program from the Dendrochronology Program Library (DPL) can be used. The DPL is available for download from the Software page of the University of Arizona's Tree Ring Lab's website).
A 'decadal' file written by MeasureJ2X that looks like this:
test 2003 5100 4700 4300 2090 1650 1210 770 test 2010 330 -9999 test2 2003 2500 2300 2100 990 770 550 330 test2 2010 110 -9999 test3 2003 2600 2400 2200 1100 880 660 440 test3 2010 220 -9999
will look like this after processing with the YUX program:
Year test test2 test3 2003 5.1 2.5 2.6 2004 4.7 2.3 2.4 2005 4.3 2.1 2.2 2006 2.09 0.99 1.1 2007 1.65 0.77 0.88 2008 1.21 0.55 0.66 2009 0.77 0.33 0.44 2010 0.33 0.11 0.22
