[R] converting a vector of bytes to a PNG/JPEG image

[Uwe Ligges]

Can't be too hard to convert it in pixmap representation, but you need 
to tell us hoe the representation looks like, probbaly with a short code 
that makes it reproducible (e.g. generate some data that we can use in R).

Uwe Ligges


Rajarshi Guha wrote:
> Hi, I have some code that uses rJava. One of the Java side methods returns a
> byte[] representing the bytes from a PNG image.
> 
> What I'd like to do is to be able to bring up the PNG on the R side (I can
> bring up a Swing window to show the PNG but I want to avoid that). I have
> looked at the pixmap and rimage packages but don't seem to be able to work
> out how I'd go about this (or if it's at all possible).
> 
> Does anybody have any pointers?
> 
> Thanks,
>