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This repository is obsolete

The official CRAN release of the tiff package now includes all the features of this fork. Please use the CRAN package instead of this one.

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

Prerequisites

Installing the tiff package requires that you have a working development environment and, for macOS and Linux, an installed copy of libtiff.

Windows: Install Rtools.

macOS:

• Install Xcode from the Mac App Store.
• Install Homebrew using these instructions.
• Install libtiff with the Terminal command brew install libtiff.

Linux:

• Install a compiler and the development version of libtiff using the package manager for your Linux version.
  • Redhat Linux: sudo yum install libtiff-devel
  • Ubuntu 16.004 LTS: sudo apt-get install libtiff5-dev

Install from GitHub

Finally, install the tiff package from GitHub with:

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