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 ====================================================\======= Jarek Tuszynski, PhD. o / \ Science Applications International Corporation <\__,| (703) 676-4192 "> \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ` \ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Maechler Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 2:53 AM To: Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W. Cc: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Subject: Re: [R] New functions supporting GIF file format in R >>>>> "JarekT" == Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> on Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:00:43 -0400 writes: 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 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
