Answering my own question in case it is of help to anyone else in future: On 6 Dec 2011, at 09:20, Dr Gregory Jefferis wrote:
> Does anyone know of an R package that can read Windows BMP format images? > Many thanks, http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/EBImage.html https://github.com/jefferis/bmp EBimage appears to be the best (and very mature) solution that does a great deal else besides, but I had trouble with the ImageMagick dependency on one of the machines that I was targeting. The bmp package is just something that I hacked together quickly in pure R (no external dependencies). Best, Greg. -- Gregory Jefferis, PhD Division of Neurobiology MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK. http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/g-jefferis http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?gsxej2 http://flybrain.stanford.edu ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.