Core package containing all the tools for simple and advanced source extraction. This is used to create inputs for ProFit, or for source detection, extraction and photometry in its own right.
Firs things first, you will probably want to install a recent version of R that lets you build packages from source. The advantage of choosing this route is you can then update bleeding edge versions directly from GitHub. If you rely on the pre-build binaries on CRAN you might be waiting much longer.
Debian: sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev
Fedora: sudo yum install R
Suse: More of a pain, see here https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/suse/README.html
Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install r-base-dev
All the info on binaries is here: https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/
If you have a poorly supported version of Linux (e.g. CentOS) you will need to install R from source with the development flags (this bit is important). You can read more here: https://cloud.r-project.org/sources.html
Now you have the development version of R installed (hopefully) I would also suggest you get yourself R-Studio. It is a very popular and well maintained R IDE that gives you a lot of helpful shortcuts to scripting and analysing with R. The latest version can be grabbed from https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/ where you almost certainly want the free Desktop version.
Source installation from GitHub should be easy:
install.packages('devtools')
library(devtools)
install_github("asgr/ProFound")
library(ProFound)The above should also install the required packages. If you have trouble with this you can try installing the required packages manually first and then retry the installation for ProFound:
install.packages(c('magicaxis', 'FITSio', 'data.table')) # Required packages
install.packages(c('knitr', 'rmarkdown', 'EBImage', 'akima', 'imager', 'LaplacesDemon')) # Suggested packages
install.packages('devtools')
library(devtools)
install_github("asgr/ProFound")To use the profoundMakeSegim and profoundProFound function for image segmentation you will need to have EBImage installed. Since this can be a bit cumbersome on some platforms (given its dependencies) this is only listed as a suggested package. You can have a go at installing it by running:
source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("EBImage")Be warned, it will probably ask you to update a whole bunch of stuff. Just say no and only install EBImage for now. If something else needs updating or is missing you will get a warning when trying to use it, and you can update those packages as neccessary. If you say yes you will probably sit there for an hour whilst it builds dozens of packages from source that you do not need to really update (or need at all).
Linux users might also need to install some non-standard graphics libraries (depending on your install). If you do not have them already, you should look to install Cairo, jpeg and tiff libraries (these are apparently technically not entirely free, hence not coming by default on some strictly open source Linux variants). For Cairo you might need to install the development version, so check this if you are having issues.
Assuming this has all installed successfully, you should now be able to load ProFound within R with the usual:
library(ProFound)image=readFITS(system.file("extdata", 'VIKING/mystery_VIKING_Z.fits', package="ProFound"))
profound=profoundProFound(image, skycut=1.5, magzero=30, verbose=TRUE, plot=TRUE)To find more long-form examples, including complicated fitting use-cases, please check the vignettes provided. You can browse these with:
browseVignettes('ProFound')Or if that does not work they are all hosted externally at http://rpubs.com/asgr/
A replacement for much of the functionality of SExtractor. This was originally developed to create good quality segmentation maps to input into ProFit, but it serves as a handy source extraction package in its own right, hence it now exists as its own package.
A.S.G. Robotham
Robotham A.S.G., et al., 2018, MNRAS, 476, 3137
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