[R] adimpro package : R does not seem to find my ImageMagick installation

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Olivier ETERRADOSSI wrote:

> Dear list,
> (sorry if I post to the wrong place...),
>
> Though having spent some time on it, I cannot find an answer by myself
> to the following behaviour of the read.image function (adimpro package) :
> I'm running R.2.6.2 on Windows XP. The home directory is C:\Program
> files\R\R-2.6.2
> Version 0.4.4 of adimpro is loaded.
> ImageMagick 6.3.0 is installed, its directory is C:\Program
> files\ImageMagick-6.3.0-Q16
>
> When using function read.image in adimpro, extensions"tif", "tiff",
> "png" .. and so on are not recognized, as seems to say the following
> error message :
>> Error in read.image(file = "JFtiff.tiff") :
>>   cannot find JFtiff.ppm
> In my understanding, this means that adimpro behaves as if ImageMagick
> was not installed, as the manual says :
>> If ImageMagick is not available only "pgm", "ppm" and "pnm" formats
>> can be processed
> What am I misunderstanding or doing wrong ? (perhaps wrong location of
> ImageMagick or wrong version...?)

Is it (or its bin directory, if it has one) in your PATH?  Being installed 
is not enough ....

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