load.image {imager}

Load image from file or URL

Description

PNG, JPEG and BMP are supported via the readbitmap package. 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