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writeLAS

Write a .las or .laz file

Description

Write a LAS object into a binary .las or .laz file (compression specified in filename)

Usage

writeLAS(las, file, index = FALSE)

Arguments

las

an object of class LAS.
file

character. A character string naming an output file.
index

boolean. Also write a lax file to index the points in the files

Value

Nothing. This function is used for its side-effect of writing a file.

Examples

LASfile <- system.file("extdata", "Megaplot.laz", package="lidR")
las = readLAS(LASfile)
subset = clip_rectangle(las, 684850, 5017850, 684900, 5017900)
writeLAS(subset, tempfile(fileext = ".laz"))
lidR

Airborne LiDAR Data Manipulation and Visualization for Forestry Applications

v3.1.2
GPL-3
Authors
Jean-Romain Roussel [aut, cre, cph], David Auty [aut, ctb] (Reviews the documentation), Florian De Boissieu [ctb] (Fixed bugs and improved catalog features), Andrew Sánchez Meador [ctb] (Implemented wing2015() for segment_snags()), Bourdon Jean-François [ctb] (Contributed to Roussel2020() for track_sensor()), Gatziolis Demetrios [ctb] (Implemented Gatziolis2019() for track_sensor())
Initial release
2021-03-11

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