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In kumeS/GoogleImage2Array: Create Array Data from 2D Image Thumbnails via Google Image Search

GoogleImage2Array (0.99.x)

R package for Creating Array Data from 2D Image Thumbnails via Google Image Search

CRAN/GoogleImage2Array, GitHub/GoogleImage2Array, rdrr.io/GoogleImage2Array

Version

0.99.6: Added a new function, 'display.spiral'.
0.99.6: Modified the 'GoogleImage2array' function.
0.99.5: Fixed to be able to read jpeg and png formats.
0.99.2: Published in CRAN.

Installation

install from CRAN (ver. 0.99.2)

install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("EBImage")

install.packages("GoogleImage2Array", repos="http://cran.r-project.org")

install the latest from GitHub

type the code below in the R console window

install.packages(c("devtools", "BiocManager"), repos="http://cran.r-project.org")
BiocManager::install("EBImage")

devtools::install_github("kumeS/GoogleImage2Array")

or install from the source file

git clone https://github.com/kumeS/GoogleImage2Array
R CMD INSTALL GoogleImage2Array

Tutorial

How to use the GoogleImage2Array functions

Functions

GoogleImage2array: create array from image thumbnails via the google image search.
bind.array: bind two 4d arrays to one 4d array.
display.array: display 4d array as a tiled image.
display.spiral: display 4d array as a spiral image.

Simple usage

library(GoogleImage2Array)

#Search by persian cat
query <- "persian cat"
CatImg <- GoogleImage2array(query)

#show info
str(CatImg)
#$ array: num [1:20, 1:64, 1:64, 1:3] 0.0141 0.7029 0.7608 0.111 0.3398 ...
#$ query: chr "persian cat"

#show CatImg
display.array(CatImg)

You should have the results of the tiled images as follows.

Image_persian_cat