Hi, the grImport package provides some tools for this.
HTH, b. On 19 February 2012 16:06, Nick Matzke <mat...@berkeley.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to parse a postscript (*.ps) file with R (or perhaps with > some other command-line utility)? > > E.g., I have a map in postscript format with lots of features, but I just > want to extract the coastline and it's coordinates. > > Any help very much appreciated! Cheers! > Nick > > > -- > ==================================================== > Nicholas J. Matzke > Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Student Researcher > > Huelsenbeck Lab > Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics > 4151 VLSB (Valley Life Sciences Building) > Department of Integrative Biology > University of California, Berkeley > > Graduate Student Instructor, IB200B > Principles of Phylogenetics: Ecology and Evolution > http://ib.berkeley.edu/courses/ib200b/ > http://phylo.wikidot.com/ > > > Lab websites: > http://ib.berkeley.edu/people/lab_detail.php?lab=54 > http://fisher.berkeley.edu/cteg/hlab.html > Dept. personal page: > http://ib.berkeley.edu/people/students/person_detail.php?person=370 > Lab personal page: http://fisher.berkeley.edu/cteg/members/matzke.html > Lab phone: 510-643-6299 > Dept. fax: 510-643-6264 > > Cell phone: 510-301-0179 > Email: mat...@berkeley.edu > > Mailing address: > Department of Integrative Biology > 1005 Valley Life Sciences Building #3140 > Berkeley, CA 94720-3140 > > ----------------------------------------------------- > "[W]hen people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people > thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that > thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is > flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together." > > Isaac Asimov (1989). "The Relativity of Wrong." The Skeptical Inquirer, > 14(1), 35-44. Fall 1989. > http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
