[R] image with R

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Olivier Martin wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> i would like to analyze some images with R.
> For example, i have a tif image (16 bit=2^16 values) that i convert in
> ascii file (8 bit =256 values only)
> so it is easy to work under R with image() function.
> But, i would like to  keep my image with 2^16 values...
> how can i do to load my tif image in my workspace?
> Do you know if there is a package for analysis image ?

Indeed there is: AnalyzeIO.  But `tif' is so ill defined that you would
need to convert to a more standard format (via ImageMagick, netpbm)
and read it with Rstreams or the binary connections functions.

Since the smallest R type is 32 bits (signed) there is no problem using
16 bits, and we do it all the time.

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