From bbolker at gmail.com  Tue Oct 23 23:10:18 2012
From: bbolker at gmail.com (Ben Bolker)
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:10:18 +0000
Subject: [Rd] 12-bit functionality in tiff package
References: <BFACF534-500B-448A-B4AC-B26F51519F64@embl.de>
Message-ID: <loom.20121023T230928-12@post.gmane.org>

Joseph Barry <joseph.barry <at> embl.de> writes:


> We have recently been using the tiff package for reading tiff images
> into the Bioconductor Package EBImage. This has been extremely
> helpful in conjunction with other steps to eliminate dependencies on
> ImageMagick.
 
> However, it seems that 12-bit images are not supported. We were
> wondering if there are plans to extend the functionality of the
> readTIFF() function in the tiff package to accommodate 12-bit
> images?

  It would probably be more efficient to query the package maintainer,
which according to 
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rtiff/

is

 	Eric Kort <eric.kort at vai.org>



[Rd] 12-bit functionality in tiff package
Ben Bolker