is there some possibility to combine the respective pairs of planar
gradiometers (i.e. compute the RMS) and store these in a Evoked object?
this would be really handy when doing stats or comparing conditions
otherwise....
yes, that would be a kind of hacky way to do it. i was just wondering,
if a solution similar to the ft_combineplanar one in fieldtrip existed
for MNE, including a dedicated sensor type etc...
there is everything you need in private methods in the mne/viz module.
It would need to be exposed in a public function and to be able to return
for example a fresh evoked object.