haimeh / tiff

Read and write TIFF images in R

tiff

This is a fork of the official tiff package with many updates including

• Limited support for tiled images
• New readTIFFDirectory function reads image tags without reading the actual image
• Ability to read (or get info on) selected images within a file

See the NEWS file for details.

Installation

Installing tiff from source requires that you have a working development environment.

• Windows: Install Rtools.
• Mac: Install Xcode from the Mac App Store.
• Linux: Install a compiler and various development libraries (details vary across different flavors of Linux).

Mac users must also install libtiff; use homebrew with the command brew install libtiff.

Linux users must install the development version of libtiff using the package manager for their Linux version.

• Redhat Linux: sudo yum install libtiff-devel
• Ubuntu 16.004 LTS: sudo apt-get install libtiff5-dev

Finally, install the tiff package from github with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("akoyabio/tiff")