[R-sig-Geo] Viewing GeoTIFFs

[Roger Bivand]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Jason Dalton wrote:

> I haven't found a package to view GeoTiff imagery in R. Does anyone know of
> one that may work?  The GeoTIFF is not compatible with most TIFF viewing
> software, the headers are different.  GRASS can view them, but I'd rather
> not run GRASS every time I need to check my code output.
> 

Which platform are you using?

If you can install rgdal, I think you will find that it reads GeoTIFFs 
nicely. You can either read larger images "by hand" using the GDAL 
interface more directly, or use readGDAL() as a wrapper returning a 
SpatialGridDataFrame object directly.

Roger

> Thanks,
> Jason Dalton
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