Shane, you replied to just to me rather than the list.

I'm not familiar with geosoft, but the name suggests this might be a better
question for r-sig-geo than here.

Is the file binary or text? The internet suggests that it's a text
format. Have you tried using www.rseek.org to search for import options?
You could probably rig something up with scan().

Sarah

On Thursday, March 28, 2013, Shane Carey wrote:

> It was created using a software called geosoft. Ive tried read.table
> already, but no joy.
>
> Thanks
>
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee@gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'sarah.goslee@gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>> What created your xyz files? File extensions aren't unique. What kind of
>> data do they contain?
>>
>> At least some kinds of xyz files are plain text and can be read with
>> read.table.
>>
>> Sarah
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, March 28, 2013, Shane Carey wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Can R read in .xyz files? If so, what is the package,
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> --
>>> Shane
>>>
>>>
>>>

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