Hello list, here is a question relative to pixmap pictures in R. Manipulating such objects is quite demanding for the RAM, as large matrices are created.
For instance, try to execute the example of rimage library : ### R code ### library(rimage) x <- read.jpeg(system.file("data", "cat.jpg", package="rimage")) plot(x) object.size(x) save.image() ### end of R code ### Moreover, the '.RData' will be approximately the size of 'x' (around 4 MB), despite the jpeg size is only 16 KB. Of course it is possible store only the expression reading the pictures instead. For instance: ### R code ### y=expression(read.jpeg(system.file("data", "cat.jpg", package="rimage"))) object.size(y) object.size(eval(y)) plot(eval(y)) ### end of R code ### But... does anybody know if compressed pictures could be stored in R? And if yes, how ? Thanks, Thibaut. -- ###################################### Thibaut JOMBART CNRS UMR 5558 - Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive Universite Lyon 1 43 bd du 11 novembre 1918 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex Tél. : 04.72.43.29.35 Fax : 04.72.43.13.88 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel