readJPEG function cannot open jpeg files
On 14 January 2013 18:56, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
On 14/01/2013 16:26, Suzen, Mehmet wrote:
Similar issue with URLs:
Not a similar issue at all: a URL is not a file. That most functions in R
itself open connections including URLs does not mean that contributed
packages do. The package help is quite specific about its requirements.
source: Either name of the file to read from or a raw vector
representing the JPEG file content.
Which suggests to you how you can do this, apart from download.file, of
course. Something like
readJPEG(readBin(yesWeCan, "raw", 1e6))
Dear Prof. Ripley, Thank you for the correction. I was thinking in the lines of 'Everything is a file' concept. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_file). Best, -m