getDescription: Get the description on a TIFF file.

In rtiff: Read and Write TIFF Files

Description

Gets the TIFF description field (tag 270) for a TIFF file.

Usage

getDescription(fn)

Arguments

fn	The name of the tiff file.

Value

A string with the description field from the TIFF file, or NA if there is no such field.

Author(s)

Eric Kort <[e-mail]>

Examples

# This has no description
getDescription(system.file("tiff", "jello.tif", package="rtiff"))
# but this has
getDescription(system.file("tiff", "t1.tif", package="rtiff"))

Example output

Loading required package: pixmap
[1] NA
[1] "Created with The GIMP"

rtiff documentation built on Jan. 14, 2021, 5:20 a.m.