Read AmiraMesh data in binary or ascii format

Read AmiraMesh data in binary or ascii format

Read the header of an AmiraMesh file

read.amiramesh(file, sections = NULL, header = FALSE,
  simplify = TRUE, endian = NULL, ReadByteAsRaw = FALSE,
  Verbose = FALSE)

read.amiramesh.header(file, Parse = TRUE, Verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

file	Name of file (or connection) to read
sections	character vector containing names of sections
header	Whether to include the full unprocessed text header as an attribute of the returned list.
simplify	If there is only one datablock in file do not return wrapped in a list (default TRUE).
endian	Whether multibyte data types should be treated as big or little endian. Default of NULL checks file or uses .Platform$endian
ReadByteAsRaw	Logical specifying whether to read 8 bit data as an R raw vector rather than integer vector (default: FALSE).
Verbose	Print status messages
Parse	Logical indicating whether to parse header (default: TRUE)

Value

list of named data chunks

Details

reading byte data as raw arrays requires 1/4 memory but complicates arithmetic.

read.amiramesh.header will open a connection if file is a character vector and close it when finished reading.

See also

readBin, .Platform

Other amira: amiratype, is.amiramesh, read.hxsurf, write.hxsurf