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Dear all, Several days ago, I posted How to write a bmp file pixel by pixel. Instead of bmp, I succeeded in writing a PPM file by using the pixmap package. Thanks for the hint generously provided by Uwe Ligges. Now I have a new question. How to convert a PPM file to BMP file in R? I know I can do this in photoshop or by some other softwares, but I think if I Can do this in R, that

Dear all, I open a bmp device by the bmp() function in the png package, but I don't know how to write color pixel by pixel into the file? Any help or hint? What I want to do is to create a 512*512 bmp file with certain dots being red and others black. I have all the pixel coordinates for the red dots, but I don't know how to draw the color on the device. Please help

With predict.lda the posterior probabilities only relate to the existing Class definitions. This is fine for Class definitions like gender but it is a problem when new data does not necessarily belong to an existing Class. Is there a classification method that gives posterior probabilities for Class membership and does not assume the new data must belong to one of the existing Classes? A new