Read and write 'las' and 'laz' binary file formats. The LAS file format is a public file format for the interchange of 3-dimensional point cloud data between data users. The LAS specifications are approved by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing <https://community.asprs.org/leadership-restricted/leadership-content/public-documents/standards>. The LAZ file format is an open and lossless compression scheme for binary LAS format versions 1.0 to 1.4 <https://laszip.org/>.
| Version: |
1.9.0 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 3.6.0) |
| Imports: |
Rcpp, data.table, utils |
| LinkingTo: |
Rcpp |
| Suggests: |
tinytest |
| Published: |
2026-05-09 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.rlas |
| Author: |
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) |
| Maintainer: |
Jean-Romain Roussel <info at r-lidar.com> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/r-lidar/rlas/issues |
| License: |
GPL-3 |
| URL: |
https://github.com/r-lidar/rlas |
| NeedsCompilation: |
yes |
| SystemRequirements: |
C++17, GDAL (>= 2.2.3), GEOS (>= 3.4.0), PROJ (>=
4.9.3), sqlite3, GNU make |
| Materials: |
README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
rlas results [issues need fixing before 2026-05-25] |