Re: [R-sig-Geo] LiDAR LAS file import into R via RSAGA

2016-02-12 Thread Chris Reudenbach
Hi Clay, RSAGA provides a comfortable platform independent system wrapper for SAGA but as stated no two-way bindings. If you want to make use of SAGA algorithms () it is IMHO the most straightforward way to import and export the raster files using the e.g. gdalUtils. If you use raster()

Re: [R-sig-Geo] LiDAR LAS file import into R via RSAGA

2016-02-12 Thread Michael Treglia
In case it's of any use to others, I've been scripting some LiDAR processing from R using LASTools, focused on dealing with many individual las files. At this point we've just been extracting a bunch of metadata fields to get a sense of what we have, fixing some metadata errors that we're aware

Re: [R-sig-Geo] LiDAR LAS file import into R via RSAGA

2016-02-12 Thread Clay S
Another option would be to create a SAGA tool chain XML file following the tutorials by Michael Bock, Olaf Conrad, Volker Wichmann, and drag that XML file into the SAGA module library. Does anyone know if you can access your own SAGA tool chains with the RSAGA::rsaga.geoprocessor command? I