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New functions supporting GIF file format in R

1 message · Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W.

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Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W.
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Sorry about late response but I was traveling and did not follow R-Help for
2 weeks.

I think, I prefer to leave read/write.GIF functions in my package where I
have a full control of IO formats. I like to store images as integer or real
matrices, and movies as 3D arrays. I believe that 'pixmap' package (as well
as 'rimage' package and possibly others) use specialized classes for images
, and do not handle movies at all (correct me if I am wrong).  

If you would like to add capability reading and writing GIF files (or ENVI
files - another multi-frame file format - see read/write.ENVI) to the
'pixmap' class, feel free to write a shell around my function. With input in
correct range (0:255) and option "scale='never'", no processing will be done
to your data on the way in or out. Also, I am not planning on making any
changes to that function, unless bugs are found. 

Regards,

Jarek
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-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Martin Maechler
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 2:53 AM
To: Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W.
Cc: (r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch.)
Subject: Re: [R] New functions supporting GIF file format in R
JarekT> Hi, A minor announcement. I just added two functions
    JarekT> for reading and writing GIF files to my caTools
    JarekT> package. Input and output is in the form of standard
    JarekT> R matrices or arrays, and standard R color-maps
    JarekT> (palettes). The functions can read and write both
    JarekT> regular GIF images, as well as, multi-frame animated
    JarekT> GIFs. Most of the work is done in C level code
    JarekT> (included), so functions do not use any external
    JarekT> libraries.

 

    JarekT> For more info and examples go to
    JarekT> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/packages/caTools.pdf
    JarekT> <http://cran.r-project.org/doc/packages/caTools.pdf>
    JarekT> and click GIF.

Wouldn't it make sense to donate these to the 'pixmap' package which is
dedicated to such objects and has been in place for a very long time?

Regards,
Martin

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