open.mrtrix.payload: Open the payload of an MRtrix TCK/TSF file for reading.

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Open the payload of an MRtrix TCK/TSF file for reading.

Description

Parses and validates the header and returns everything needed to read the payload. The caller is responsible for closing con.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'mrtrix.payload'
open(filepath, max_tracks = Inf)

Arguments

filepath	character string, path to the file.
max_tracks	numeric, the maximum number of tracks that will be read. Used to decide whether an up-front allocation check makes sense.

Value

named list with entries con, header, offset, dsize, endian, values_per_point, gzipped, is_tck and expected_groups.

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