Hi all,

I would like to
1. Read in an arcmap image into R (I can export pretty much any type of image jpeg, bitmap etc from arcmap)
2. Use R to create a nice colour legend in the plot

First of all, Is this possible?

So far I'm stuck on point 1. I have tried read.pnm() from pixmap and read.jpeg() from rgl.

the pnm example provided works fine
x <- read.pnm(system.file("pictures/logo.ppm", package="pixmap")[1])
plot(x)
#draws an R logo, nice :-)

But my code returns an error

x<-read.pnm("C:/Documents and Settings/simonp/My Documents/Simon BTO/RELU/GIS data/ten km areas in analysis.bmp")
Error in pm.readmagicnumber(con) : Not a PNM format file

I have tried changing the dpi when I export the image but still no cigar.
I have dredged the help forum for related files and read the help files. My Os is windows XP and i'm running 2.8.1.

I feel I'm missing something obvious!
Thanks



Dr. Simon Pickett
Research Ecologist
Land Use Department
Terrestrial Unit
British Trust for Ornithology
The Nunnery
Thetford
Norfolk
IP242PU
01842750050

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