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Subject: Re: ply files in R
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:29:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joseph Kunkel <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
CC: Joseph Kunkel <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

In R there are several default library functions that read tables of
numbers.

If the ply file is ascii you can look at it to check its format
visually.

The read.table() function should read the ply file.

Looking at the ascii file in an editor you will be able to know
whether the x,y,z columns have headers naming the axes and whether you
need to skip any lines to get to the header or data lines.

The default for this function has the header=FALSE, so if you want the
headers read automatically you need to set header=TRUE.  Setting
skip=n will skip n lines before reading data.

The description for how to use this function can be found by typing:

help(read.table)

... in the in the R console.

Joe

On Jul 10, 2009, at 9:34 AM, morphmet wrote:



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: ply files in R
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 15:00:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dean Adams <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
References: <[email protected]>

Hello all.

Does anyone know of a routine in R that reads ascii ply files?

Thanks,

Dean

Dr. Dean C. Adams
Associate Professor
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
Department of Statistics
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa
50011



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