parse_description: parse description of ScanImage TIFF file, converting it to...
In jefferis/scanimage: read and analyse 2 photon images from ScanImage

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parse description of ScanImage TIFF file, converting it to key-value list

1	parse_description(x, raw = FALSE)

`x`	Path to a TIFF file, one or more slices returned by `read.scanimage` or a raw data block.
`raw`	Whether to return the raw description field as a single string or when `FALSE` (the default) to return it is as a list containing parsed R data types.

ScanImage TIFF flies contain a single description field, which is a CR delimited values of the form key=value.

a named list or, when raw=TRUE, a character vector of length 1.

read.scanimage

desc=parse_description(system.file(
  'extdata/Blank-IPA_1s_16r_032.tif',package='scanimage'))
desc$state.configName
# [1] "ajdm_piezo"
desc$state.acq.frameRate
# [1] 8.138021 (Hz)