[R] BMP to matrix

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Manuel Castejon Limas wrote:

> Hi all, 
> is there any R function that loads a bmp file, or any other format, and converts its grid of pixels into a matrix or data frame?

Almost certainly not (they are binary files) but netpbm and ImageMagick and
such programs have means to convert the files to an ASCII gird of numbers,
which R can read easily.

That's mainly how we do it. For really big image files, I wrote a C
interface that reads the file and fills a pre-allocated array.

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