On 20-Feb-07 Ralf Finne wrote: > Hi everybody! > Is there any way to read a postscrit file into R? > > All the best to you > Ralf Finne > SYH University of Applied Sciences > Vasa Finland
Well, yes ... since a PostScript file is ASCII text you could use readline() ... but what you'd do with it after that I cannot imagine! [So I'm joking here] So, to come to the point: Why do you want to do that? If, for example, the PS file displays tabular data which you want to read into R as data, then perhaps one way would be to use suitable utility software to convert the PS file to a PDF file. Then you can display the PDF file using Acrobat Reader, and use the mouse to copy the data into a file which you can then edit up so that it can be read nicely into a dataframe in R. There are also utilities called ps2ascii (part of ghostscript; often fails to do a clean job) and pstotext which you can get from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/pstotext.htm (which claims to do a better job, though I've not tested it) which can convert a PS file into an ASCII text file which gives essentially the same text layout as seen when you display/print the PS file. You may then be able to edit this into a form which R can read as you want. But, for better targeted advice, it would be useful to know why you want to "read a PDF file into R"! Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 20-Feb-07 Time: 15:11:34 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.