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writelax

Write a .lax file from a .las or .laz file

Description

Write a lax file from a las or laz file. A lax file is a tiny file which can come with a las or laz and which spatially index the data to make faster spatial queries. It has been invented by Martin Isenburg in LASlib. rlas support lax file and enable to write a lax file with default settings. For more options, use lasindex from binaries provided by LASlib (for more informations see references)

Usage

writelax(file, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

`file`	character. filename of .las or .laz file
`verbose`	boolean. Verbose switch.

References

https://rapidlasso.com/
https://rapidlasso.com/2012/12/03/lasindex-spatial-indexing-of-lidar-data/
https://github.com/LAStools/LAStools

rlas

Read and Write 'las' and 'laz' Binary File Formats Used for Remote Sensing Data

v1.4.0

GPL-3

Authors

Jean-Romain Roussel [aut, cre, cph], Florian De Boissieu [aut, ctb] (Enable the support of .lax file and extra byte attributes), Martin Isenburg [cph] (Is the author of the LASlib and LASzip libraries), David Auty [ctb] (Reviewed the documentation), Pierrick Marie [ctb] (Helped to compile LASlib code in R), Tiago de Conto [ctb] (Implemented the -thin_with_voxel filter method)

Initial release

2021-03-21