[R] readGDAL or raster for reading bit map files

[Michael Sumner]

Just do

m <- as.matrix(store)

or

m <- as.image.SpatialGridDataFrame(store)$z

image(m)

They give the same result with different orientations.  Note that both
assume a single-band raster, e.g. you only have a "greyscale" bitmap
(for example).

The details behind all this is given in the documentation for the sp
package. See ?image for the basic image plot for a matrix.

Cheers, Mike.


On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Alaios <alaios at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
> I have asked yesterday of how I can read a simple bitmap file in R cran.
>
> I was suggest to use either readGDAL or raster for loading my bitmap
>
>
> a. I have done it with readGDAL like
>
>     store<-readGDAL(fname='lena256.bmp')
>     and it works,... but it converts my matrix-like notion of a bitmap to a large vector
>
> b. Raster also returns a class that I can not understand.
>
> So 1, I want to load it and keep the image as a matrix (so every cell in the matrix will correspond to a pixel)
> 2. I want to be able to plot the image based on that matrix that I have loaded too.
>
> Could you please explain me how I can do those?
>
> B.R
> Alex
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Michael Sumner
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