Dear Ben,

Many thanks for the reply. 

Actually, rtiff is a separate package to tiff. I have continued my correspondence with the latter's maintainer (Simon Urbanek) off-list. Perhaps I should have done this directly from the beginning, rather than going through list.

Best wishes,
Joseph Barry
 

On Oct 23, 2012, at 11:10 PM, Ben Bolker wrote:

> 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>
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