[R] importing bitmap images to R

[Uwe Ligges]

See package pixmap and Paul Murrel's talk from useR!2006:
http://www.r-project.org/useR-2006/Slides/Murrell.pdf

Uwe Ligges


Michael Wolosin wrote:
> All -
> 
> I'm creating some plots in R that I would like to overlay on images that 
> are created outside of R.
> 
> I've used "image" before to plot image-like data within R, and have added 
> vector plots on top of them, but I can't find a way to read in an external 
> bitmap file into R and use that.
> 
> Currently the external files are .png's, but I could generate a few other 
> types, if something else might be easier to import.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Mike
> 
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