R help - Apr 2006 - R interface to ImageMagick

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone is aware of an R interface to ImageMagick
(www.imagemagick.org)? Since R does not support a lot of image processing
functions, having such an interface could be very useful. Alternatively,
ImageMagick has a couple of different interfaces (including to C and C++). I
was wondering if one can use these to call ImageMagick functions from R.

I am posting a similar question on the imagemagick mailing lists too.

Thanks for the help,
Firas.

> RSiteSearch("imagemagick")
reveals a few functions whose help pages reference ImageMagick and R-help 
postings that pertain to image manipulation.

However, I did notice anything that amounts to an 'interface'.

Certainly, you can use 'shell' to run command line tools like
'convert' et
cetera and to query files using 'identify'. For example to resize a
bunch
of images and store them in a directory 'quarter' (on a Windows system),
this works:

hpim.files <- list.files(".","^hpim.*")
dir.create("quarter")
convert.cmd <- 'convert  #in  -resize "540x540>"
quarter\\#in'
for ( i in hpim.files ) {
   shell( gsub( "#in", i, convert.cmd ),
shell=Sys.getenv("COMSPEC"))
}


Chuck

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Swidan, Firas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if anyone is aware of an R interface to ImageMagick
> (www.imagemagick.org)? Since R does not support a lot of image processing
> functions, having such an interface could be very useful. Alternatively,
> ImageMagick has a couple of different interfaces (including to C and C++).
I
> was wondering if one can use these to call ImageMagick functions from R.
>
> I am posting a similar question on the imagemagick mailing lists too.
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Firas.
>
>
>
>
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