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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
>
> --
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