This package was removed from CRAN on 2026-06-09. Its history is shown below.

Reason: ASAN issues were not corrected despite multiple notifications. On macOS

Details below reflect version 1.9.3, its last release before removal.

rlas

1.9.3

Read and Write 'las' and 'laz' Binary File Formats Used for Remote Sensing Data

0packages depend

60.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

–checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jean-Romain Roussel46 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Read and write 'las' and 'laz' binary file formats. The LAS file format is a public file format for the interchange of 3-dimensional point cloud data between data users. The LAS specifications are approved by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing https://community.asprs.org/leadership-restricted/leadership-content/public-documents/standards. The LAZ file format is an open and lossless compression scheme for binary LAS format versions 1.0 to 1.4 https://laszip.org/.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/rlas/rlas_1.9.3.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "rlas_1.9.3.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (1.9.3) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("r-lidar/rlas")

Development version from r-lidar/rlas. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-rlas

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-rlas

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-08
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-22
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 1 earlier snapshots

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 193 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 86%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 42%
References docs: 8%

Downloads

60.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,829 · ~165/day · ~5K/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (3)

Rcpp data.tableutils

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (1)

tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Jean-Romain Roussel

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (2)

Jean-Romain Roussel

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Florian De Boissieu

Author, Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Contributors (2)

Florian De Boissieu

Author, Contributor · added in 1.1.0

David Auty

Contributor

Jean-Romain Roussel

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Martin Isenburg

Other (2)

Pierrick Marie

Contributor

Tiago de Conto

Contributor · added in 1.3.0

Package Timeline

46 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-06-09
ASAN issues were not corrected despite multiple notifications On macOS
1.9.3
2026-06-02 · diff ↗
1.9.2
2026-05-22 · diff ↗
1.9.1
2026-05-15 · diff ↗
1.9.0
2026-05-09 · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.8.6
2026-04-03 · diff ↗
1.8.5
2026-04-02 · diff ↗
1.8.4
2026-01-29 · diff ↗
1.8.3
2026-01-28 · diff ↗
1.8.2
2025-05-17 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.8.0
2024-07-17 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.7.0
2023-12-11 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

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1.6.3
2023-03-18 · diff ↗
1.6.2
2023-01-06 · diff ↗
1.6.1
2022-10-19 · diff ↗
1.6.0
2022-05-26 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.5.3
2022-03-18 · diff ↗
1.5.2
2022-02-14 · diff ↗
1.5.1
2022-02-09 · diff ↗
1.5.0
2021-06-02 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.4.0
2021-03-23 · diff ↗
1.3.9
2021-01-12 · diff ↗
1.3.8
2020-12-14 · diff ↗
1.3.7
2020-11-11 · diff ↗
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2020-06-02 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.3.5
2020-02-04 · diff ↗
1.3.4
2019-09-19 · diff ↗
1.3.3
2019-08-30 · diff ↗
1.3.2
2019-04-27 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.3.1
2019-02-08 · diff ↗
1.2.9
2019-02-07 · diff ↗
1.3.0
2019-02-04 · diff ↗
1.2.7
2018-08-21 · diff ↗
1.2.4
2018-06-11 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2018-06-11
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2018-06-10
C++ errors were not corrected despite reminder 'strnlen' is POSIX, not C++
1.2.3
2018-05-18 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.2.1
2018-04-13 · diff ↗
1.2.0
2018-04-09 · diff ↗
1.1.9
2018-01-18 · diff ↗
1.1.8
2018-01-16 · diff ↗
1.1.5
2017-09-22 · diff ↗
1.1.4
2017-06-27 · diff ↗
1.1.3
2017-06-09 · diff ↗
1.1.2
2017-05-04 · diff ↗
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.1.1
2017-03-16 · diff ↗
1.1.0
2017-02-05 · diff ↗
1.0.3
2016-12-29 · diff ↗
1.0.2
2016-12-23
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

Total releases: 46
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 562 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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