The advice is wise, despite appearances the extension really means nothing except when it is assumed that it does. Try the raster or rgdal packages, and the R-Sig-Geo mailing list with much more detail (as requested).
require(raster) d <- raster(somefile) d <- rasterFromXYZ(somefile) require(rgdal) d <- readGDAL(somefile) All of these are worth trying, and reporting on in detail (read the posting guide). If any of them work they are all achievable and/or provided with more generic R tools, but your original query doesn't provide any information at all to help. Cheers, Mike. On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com>wrote: > Shane, you replied to just to me rather than the list. > > I'm not familiar with geosoft, but the name suggests this might be a better > question for r-sig-geo than here. > > Is the file binary or text? The internet suggests that it's a text > format. Have you tried using www.rseek.org to search for import options? > You could probably rig something up with scan(). > > Sarah > > On Thursday, March 28, 2013, Shane Carey wrote: > > > It was created using a software called geosoft. Ive tried read.table > > already, but no joy. > > > > Thanks > > > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Sarah Goslee > > <sarah.gos...@gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, > 'cvml', 'sarah.gos...@gmail.com');> > > > wrote: > > > >> What created your xyz files? File extensions aren't unique. What kind of > >> data do they contain? > >> > >> At least some kinds of xyz files are plain text and can be read with > >> read.table. > >> > >> Sarah > >> > >> > >> On Thursday, March 28, 2013, Shane Carey wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Can R read in .xyz files? If so, what is the package, > >>> thanks > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Shane > >>> > >>> > >>> > > -- > Sarah Goslee > http://www.stringpage.com > http://www.sarahgoslee.com > http://www.functionaldiversity.org > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Michael Sumner Hobart, Australia e-mail: mdsum...@gmail.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.