R help - Nov 2003 - How to read .bmp files into R? read.pnm throws error

Hi,

Is there a way to read .bmp files into R? I have tried read.pnm from pixmap
package. It returned

Error in pm.readmagicnumber(con) : Not a PNM format file

Anyother ways to load bitmap images?

Yi-Xiong

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 15:57:35 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Is there a way to read .bmp files into R? I have tried read.pnm from pixmap
>package. It returned
>
>Error in pm.readmagicnumber(con) : Not a PNM format file
>
>Anyother ways to load bitmap images?
.bmp format is fairly simple, and is well documented (e.g. see
www.wotsit.org).  It wouldn't be hard to write a reader using
connections.

The only difficulty is that several pixel formats are available.
However, if you have control of the creation of the files, you can
choose 24 bit BMPs, which are the simplest to read.

Duncan Murdoch