The BitmapImage class

Description

Package: R.image
Class BitmapImage

Object
~~|
~~+--BitmapImage

Directly known subclasses:
GrayImage, MonochromeImage, RGBImage

public abstract static class BitmapImage
extends Object

The abstract but static class BitmapImage provides methods to read, write and display bitmap images.

Usage

BitmapImage()

Arguments

None.

Methods

Methods:

	as.character	Gets a string description of the image.
	depth	Gets the number of bitplanes of the image.
	dim	Gets the dimension of the image.
	getColorMap	Gets the color map of the image.
	getColors	Gets the color matrix.
	height	Gets the height of the image.
	image	Displays the image.
	plot	Plots the image.
	points	Places the image on a existing plot as points.
	read	Reads an image from a file.
	readJPEG	-
	readUsingExternal	-
	width	Gets the width of the image.
	write	Writes the image to a file.
	writeBMP	-
	writeEPS	-
	writeJPG	-
	writePBM	-
	writePGM	-
	writePNG	-
	writePPM	-
	writeRGB	-

Methods inherited from Object:
$, $<-, [[, [[<-, as.character, attach, attachLocally, clearCache, clone, detach, equals, extend, finalize, gc, getEnvironment, getFields, getInstanciationTime, getStaticInstance, hasField, hashCode, ll, load, objectSize, print, save

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson (http://www.braju.com/R/)

See Also

For converting images in of file formats see ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org), which is free and available for many differt platforms.

Examples

   # Read the images 'logosm.ppm' of size 51x38.
   logo <- BitmapImage$read("logosm.ppm", path=system.file("images", package="R.image"))

   image(logo)