If you do locate code to read it, or you end up writing some yourself, you should consider contributing it to the foreign package.
There's a C (and fortran)-level library for reading FITS files here:
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/fitsio/fitsio.html
- together with addons for Perl, Python, C++ etc. Coding an R interface would be a nice exercise in R coding.
I would have already written this if not for the fact that most of the high-dimensional data that I deal with gets written with some awful unformatted fortran IO rubbish that needs reverse-engineering and byte-swapping. Haven't these people heard of HDF or FITS?? *sigh*
Also, I notice that SciLab can read FITS files, by using ImageMagick, which can read FITS files.... ImageMagick could convert it to something readable by R, I guess.... This would be the dirty hack solution.
Baz
______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
