[GRASS-user] How to grep basic statistics from a vector ascii (x, y, z) file and export in a new ascii?

[Markus Neteler]

On Jan 5, 2008 5:17 PM, Nikos Alexandris
<nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> A friend works with LIDAR data. He needs to write a program with which
> he extracts (from an vector ASCII x,y,z file) the row containing the
> maximum z (height) and write a new vector ASCII containing the result.
>
> (He writes in C++)
>
> Since he deals with lots of ASCII files he needs to batch this job.
>
> How about doing this in GRASS? With R maybe?

It would be good to extend v.univar to also analyze the geometry
statistics. I was seeking for the same functionality recently.

Markus