[R] gif, jpeg and png image files reader

[Anthony Rossini]

Great, Jonathan.  We are looking forward to your contributions!  I'm glad you've volunteered to take on such a pressing task, since of course, scripting with another language isn't quite so elegant.

(on a serious note, I've needed to do such, and scripting with other languages (Python, but I'm sure Perl would do) sufficed; while it is a place that could use improvement, I don't think it is nearly as pressing, since tools are freely available for solving the general problem).

best,
-tony


On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Jonathan Q. Li wrote:

> Yah, but what if I need to write a package in R that reads these images?
> It's
> too much manual trouble to use outside software. It's especially infeasible
> if
> these become a routine task with many images.
> I think that here may be a place to make an improvement to R.
> I, for one, can certainly appreciate the use of such reader functions. Are
> there any one else
> who felt the same way?
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Peng [mailto:rpeng at stat.ucla.edu]
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 5:43 PM
> To: jonathan_li at agilent.com
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> Subject: Re: [R] gif, jpeg and png image files reader
> 
> 
> The pixmap package has functions for reading pnm (portable anymap) files,
> but you still need an outside software to convert (like ImageMagick).
> 
> -roger
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> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, jonathan_li at agilent.com wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Although R seems to have jpeg() and png() functions that converts data
> into
> > jpeg and png formated files, it
> > doesn't have functions the other way around.
> > Does one of R contributed packages have gif, jpeg and png image readers? I
> > did help.search() but no luck
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jonathan
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