Re: [R-pkg-devel] [External] circular suggested packages

2023-11-07 Thread Jeff Newmiller via R-package-devel
Richard ... they are by different maintainers. They also are built with completely different underlying technologies... creating a bitmap is easy, deciphering one is difficult and may not be necessary in the same workflow and there may be different compiled code available optimized for different

Re: [R-pkg-devel] [External] circular suggested packages

2023-11-07 Thread Thierry Onkelinx
The goal of opencv is to provide bindings to 'OpenCV' Computer Vision Library. Hence a much wider scope than just reading qrcodes. qrcode just focusses creating different qrcodes. The fact that they can use each other to test themselves is a happy coincidence. ir. Thierry Onkelinx Statisticus / St

Re: [R-pkg-devel] [External] circular suggested packages

2023-11-07 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
Why are these functins in two different packages? On the surface it looks like qrcode is a transformation function and opencv is its inverse. > On Nov 7, 2023, at 14:55, Thierry Onkelinx wrote: > > Dear all, > > The qrcode package converts text into a qrcode image. The opencv package is > able t