check_for_lax: Check for and create a lax index from a directory of LAS...

In jbcannon/landecoutils: Utility Functions for the Landscape Ecology Lab

Check for and create a lax index from a directory of LAS files

Description

Check for LAX index files and create them as necessary. Indexing greatly increases the processingAn earlier version of this function overwrote the original LAS resulting in possible corruption of the original file if the process was interrupted. This updated version uses temporary files to avoid this problem.

Usage

check_for_lax(dir, n_cores = 1, write_lax = TRUE)

Arguments

dir	path to a directory containing .LAS or .LAZ files to index
n_cores	number of cores to create doSNOW cluster
write_lax	indicates if .lax file should be written (TRUE), or only checked for (FALSE)

Examples

check_for_lax('E:/my/las/dir/', n_cores=4)

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