Reads GPX format files by simply finding all longitudes and latitudes; in other words, information on separate tracks, or waypoints, etc., is lost.
read.gps(
file,
type = NULL,
encoding = "latin1",
debug = getOption("oceDebug"),
processingLog
)A gps object.
name of file containing gps data.
type of file, which will be inferred from examination of the
data if not supplied. In the present version, the only choice for
type is "gpx".
a character value that indicates the encoding to be used for
this data file, if it is textual. The default value for most functions is
"latin1", which seems to be suitable for files containing text written in
English and French.
set to TRUE to print information about the header, etc.
ignored.
Dan Kelley
Other things related to gps data:
[[,gps-method,
[[<-,gps-method,
as.gps(),
gps-class,
plot,gps-method,
summary,gps-method