[Rd] 12-bit functionality in tiff package

[Ben Bolker]

Joseph Barry <joseph.barry <at> embl.de> writes:


> We have recently been using the tiff package for reading tiff images
> into the Bioconductor Package EBImage. This has been extremely
> helpful in conjunction with other steps to eliminate dependencies on
> ImageMagick.
 
> However, it seems that 12-bit images are not supported. We were
> wondering if there are plans to extend the functionality of the
> readTIFF() function in the tiff package to accommodate 12-bit
> images?

  It would probably be more efficient to query the package maintainer,
which according to 
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rtiff/

is

 	Eric Kort <eric.kort at vai.org>