R package to read and write .las and .laz binary files used to store LiDAR data.

rlas relies on a modified version of the open source parts of LAStools. LASlib and LASzip were modified to be compatible with R. The library can therefore be compiled into R without any complaints from R CMD check. It enables users to read and write into R binary files commonly used to store LiDAR data.

las.data   = readlasdata("<myfile.las>")
las.header = readlasheader("<myfile.las>")

Install rlas from github

This package contains C++ code. To install the package from github make sure you have a working development environment.

• Windows: Install Rtools.exe.
• Mac: Install Xcode from the Mac App Store.
• Linux: Install the R development package, usually called r-devel or r-base-dev

Install devtools: install.packages("devtools"), then:

devtools::install_github("Jean-Romain/rlas", dependencies=TRUE)

Copyright Information

rlas contains code written by both Jean-Romain Roussel and Martin Isenburg. The latter is included for technical reasons. Details below.

For LASlib and LASzip:

(c) 2007-2015 martin.isenburg@rapidlasso.com - http://rapidlasso.com

Provided under LGPL license and modified to be R-compliant by Jean-Romain Roussel. Each modification is dated and registered into the file headers.

For rlas code enabling Martin Isenburg's code to be wrapped into R:

(c) 2016 Jean-Romain Roussel

Provided under GPL-3 license.