Re: [R] analysis of bitmaps

2012-09-05 Thread Michael Sumner
There are several packages to do this, with probably rgdal as the most general for reading - it will read many image formats as a SpatialGridDataFrame (class from package sp). This class behaves like a data.frame in many ways and can be coerced to one with as.data.frame. Non-spatial image formats w

[R] analysis of bitmaps

2012-09-05 Thread Scott Swigart
I'm interested in using R to perform some statistical analysis of bitmaps. When I search, I see a lot of information about outputting bitmaps, but I'm not finding much about loading a bitmap into a data frame so that it can be analyzed. Would someone have a quick pointer to help me out?