[R] importing images

[Roger Bivand]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Herve Cardot wrote:

> 
> I would like to import "tif" images in R and I do not find any
> function that can do that. In Matlab there exists the  function "imread"
> 
> that can read the most known images format. Does a similar function
> exist for R ?
> 

If you can convert your image to a portable anymap, then read.pnm() in the
pixmap package should do this. On Linux/Unix the NetPBM program tifftopnm
does the conversion, ImageMagick convert does it, and many bitmap graphics
applications will too.

Roger


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