[R] reading tiff files

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Laurent Gautier wrote:

> Dear all,
>
>
> Following the answers to my previous post, it seems that the way is to
> convert first the picture before being abble to read it using the
> pixmap package.
>
> Would it make sense to have a function in pixmap to directly read tiff
> file ?
>
> I was thinking of making a function for that would do the job, and would
> be ready to make the extra step to have something eventually usefull for
> others (and why not included in the pixmap package).
>
> suggestions ?

Unfortunately, I believe tiff is not well-defined as it is an extensible
format with a very large number of possibilities.  I think this is best
left to an external tool, none of which are (AFAIK) comprehensive.

AFAIR, pdftex took out tiff support after a while for exactly this reason.

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