Read file in x3p format. x3p formats describe 3d topological surface according to ISO standard ISO5436 – 2000. x3p files are a container format implemented as a zip archive of a folder consisting of an xml file of meta information and a binary matrix of numeric surface measurements.
Usage
x3p_read(file, size = NA, quiet = T, tmpdir = NULL)
read_x3p(file, size = NA, quiet = T, tmpdir = NULL)Arguments
- file
The file path to the x3p file, or an url to an x3p file
- size
size in bytes to use for reading the binary file. If not specified, default is used. Will be overwritten if specified in the xml meta file.
- quiet
for url downloads, show download progress?
- tmpdir
temporary directory to use to extract the x3p file (default NULL uses tempdir() to set a directory).
Value
x3p object consisting of a list of the surface matrix and the four records as specified in the ISO standard
Examples
logo <- x3p_read(system.file("csafe-logo.x3p", package="x3ptools"))