[R] parse .ps files with R?
Nick Matzke
matzke at berkeley.edu
Sun Feb 19 22:21:04 CET 2012
Thanks very much!!
Nick
On 2/18/12 7:39 PM, baptiste auguie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the grImport package provides some tools for this.
>
> HTH,
>
> b.
>
> On 19 February 2012 16:06, Nick Matzke<matzke at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a way to parse a postscript (*.ps) file with R (or perhaps with
>> some other command-line utility)?
>>
>> E.g., I have a map in postscript format with lots of features, but I just
>> want to extract the coastline and it's coordinates.
>>
>> Any help very much appreciated! Cheers!
>> Nick
>>
>>
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>> Nicholas J. Matzke
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>>
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>> University of California, Berkeley
>>
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>> Isaac Asimov (1989). "The Relativity of Wrong." The Skeptical Inquirer,
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--
====================================================
Nicholas J. Matzke
Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Student Researcher
Huelsenbeck Lab
Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics
4151 VLSB (Valley Life Sciences Building)
Department of Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Graduate Student Instructor, IB200B
Principles of Phylogenetics: Ecology and Evolution
http://ib.berkeley.edu/courses/ib200b/
http://phylo.wikidot.com/
Lab websites:
http://ib.berkeley.edu/people/lab_detail.php?lab=54
http://fisher.berkeley.edu/cteg/hlab.html
Dept. personal page:
http://ib.berkeley.edu/people/students/person_detail.php?person=370
Lab personal page:
http://fisher.berkeley.edu/cteg/members/matzke.html
Lab phone: 510-643-6299
Dept. fax: 510-643-6264
Cell phone: 510-301-0179
Email: matzke at berkeley.edu
Mailing address:
Department of Integrative Biology
1005 Valley Life Sciences Building #3140
Berkeley, CA 94720-3140
-----------------------------------------------------
"[W]hen people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong.
When people thought the earth was spherical, they were
wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical
is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your
view is wronger than both of them put together."
Isaac Asimov (1989). "The Relativity of Wrong." The
Skeptical Inquirer, 14(1), 35-44. Fall 1989.
http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
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