On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Ralf Schäfer <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all > > presumably a trivial question - but what is the argument for space when > importing data? > I have xyz files with the format > ..x..y...value > where <.> stands for white space. The spacing is two spaces between x and y > and three spaces to data column.
[ rather difficult to produce a file with different kinds of spacing between columns ] You could try cat dgm10_32292_5548_2_rp.xyz | tr -s ' ' >dgm10_32292_5548_2_rp_one_space.xyz r.in.xyz fs='space', in=dgm10_32292_5548_2_rp_one_space.xyz out=test Markus M > > I used > r.in.xyz fs='space', in=dgm10_32292_5548_2_rp.xyz out=test > and obtain: > ERROR: Bad y-coordinate line 1 column 2. <> > > I also tried different options for fs: fs=' ', fs = space, fs = \s > (whitespace regular expression) - without success > > In R it is no problem - the simple read.table with sep="" for any whitespace > works. And with rasterFromXYZ (raster package) I can create a raster without > problems. > > I guess it is also easy in GRASS but I am just too ignorant :-) > > Cheers > Ralf > _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
