Package: rtiff
Type: Package
Title: A tiff reader for R.
Version: 1.0
Date: 2005-12-20
Depends: pixmap
Author: Eric Kort
Maintainer: Eric Kort <eric.kort@vai.org>
SystemRequirements: libtiff
Description: This package will read TIFF format images and return them
        as a pixmap object. Because the resulting object can be very
        large for even modestly sized TIFF images, images can be
        reduced as they are read for improved performance.  This
        package is a wrapper around libtiff (www.libtiff.org), on which
        it depends (i.e. the libtiff shared library must be on your
        PATH for the binary to work, and tiffio.h must be on your
        system to build the package from source).  By using libtiff's
        highlevel TIFFReadRGBAImage function, this package inherently
        support a wide range of image formats and compression schemes.
        This package also provides an implementation of the Ridler
        Autothresholding algorithm for easy generation of binary masks.
        NOTE TO SOURCE COMPILERS: Due to what appears to be a bug in
        GCC optimization, this package uses a simple custom Makefile in
        the src directory to ensure that compiler optimization is
        skipped.  The Makefile is not sophisticated, and assumes you
        are using gcc as your compiler.  Please contact the author if
        this is problematic.
License: GPL
Packaged: Tue Dec 27 13:43:32 2005; erikor
Built: R 2.2.1; i386-pc-mingw32; 2006-01-02 14:20:10; windows
