showimage

Show an Image on an R Graphics Device

Sometimes it is handy to be able to view an image file on an R graphics device. This package just does that. Currently it supports PNG files.

Installation

Stable version:

# devtools::install_github("r-lib/showimage")
install.packages("showimage", repos = c('https://r-lib.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Development version:

# pak::pak("r-lib/showimage")
install.packages("showimage", repos = c('https://r-lib.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

library(showimage)
png(tmp <- tempfile(fileext = ".png"))
pairs(iris)
dev.off()
show_image(tmp)

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