R help - May 2010 - ISO Eric Kort (rtiff)

I wanted to ask Eric a question or two about the rtiff package, but his 
listed email address bounces w/ 550 error.   Does anyone know how to 
reach him, or whether he's actively maintaining rtiff?


If anyone's interested, my primary desire is for rtiff (or other tool) 
to provide me with the raw range of pixel values in a tiff file.  rtiff 
dumps straight into a pixmap object, so the data are autoscaled into [0,1] .

thanks
Carl

On Mon, 3 May 2010, Carl Witthoft wrote:
> I wanted to ask Eric a question or two about the rtiff package, but his 
> listed email address bounces w/ 550 error.   Does anyone know how to reach 
> him, or whether he's actively maintaining rtiff?
He is not.  The latest version of rtiff was done by the CRAN team to 
fix a number of errors and keep it building on the CRAN platfoms -- 
you will see it was packaged by me.
> If anyone's interested, my primary desire is for rtiff (or other tool)
to
> provide me with the raw range of pixel values in a tiff file.  rtiff dumps 
> straight into a pixmap object, so the data are autoscaled into [0,1] .
It is very simple package, easy for you to modify -- this could be 
done in readTiff in a couple of minutes.

An alternative is BioC package EBImage (provided your ImageMagick 
installation supports TIFF).

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