I realize that this question has been asked before (2003); From: Yi-Xiong Zhou Date: Sat 22 Nov 2003 - 10:57:35 EST but I am hoping that the answer has changed. Namely, I would rather read the BMP (or TIFF) files directly instead of putting them though a separate utility for conversion as suggested by, From: Prof Brian Ripley Date: Sat 22 Nov 2003 - 15:23:33 EST "Even easier is to convert .bmp to .pnm by an external utility. For example, `convert' from the ImageMagick suite (www.imagemagick.org) can do this. " Thanks, Robert Meglen bmeglen@comcast.net [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On 6/7/07, Bob Meglen <bmeglen@comcast.net> wrote:> > I realize that this question has been asked before (2003); > > From: Yi-Xiong Zhou > Date: Sat 22 Nov 2003 - 10:57:35 EST > > but I am hoping that the answer has changed. Namely, I would > rather read the BMP (or TIFF) files directly instead of putting > them though a separate utility for conversion as suggested by,What would you like to do with the images? The GdkPixbuf bindings provided by the RGtk2 package allow you to read both types of images. In conjunction with the cairoDevice package, you could mix the image with R graphics. Another way might be to use some Java library via rJava and use the Java graphics device. Michael From: Prof Brian Ripley> Date: Sat 22 Nov 2003 - 15:23:33 EST > > "Even easier is to convert .bmp to .pnm by an external utility. For > example, `convert' from the ImageMagick suite (www.imagemagick.org) can do > this. " > > > > Thanks, > Robert Meglen > bmeglen@comcast.net > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
See the EBImage package on Bioconductor. /Henrik On 6/7/07, Bob Meglen <bmeglen at comcast.net> wrote:> I realize that this question has been asked before (2003); > > From: Yi-Xiong Zhou > Date: Sat 22 Nov 2003 - 10:57:35 EST > > but I am hoping that the answer has changed. Namely, I would > rather read the BMP (or TIFF) files directly instead of putting > them though a separate utility for conversion as suggested by, > > From: Prof Brian Ripley > Date: Sat 22 Nov 2003 - 15:23:33 EST > > "Even easier is to convert .bmp to .pnm by an external utility. For > example, `convert' from the ImageMagick suite (www.imagemagick.org) can do > this. " > > > > Thanks, > Robert Meglen > bmeglen at comcast.net > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >
