load.image: Load image from file or URL

In imager: Image Processing Library Based on 'CImg'

Load image from file or URL

Description

PNG, JPEG and BMP are supported via the readbitmap package, WEBP is supported via the webp package (with ImageMagick backup). You'll need to install ImageMagick for other formats. If the path is actually a URL, it should start with http(s) or ftp(s).

Usage

load.image(file)

Arguments

file	path to file or URL

Value

an object of class 'cimg'

Examples

#Find path to example file from package
fpath <- system.file('extdata/Leonardo_Birds.jpg',package='imager')
im <- load.image(fpath)
plot(im)
#Load the R logo directly from the CRAN webpage
#load.image("https://cran.r-project.org/Rlogo.jpg") %>% plot

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