Show an Image on an R Graphics Device • 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")

Development version:

pak::pak("r-lib/showimage")

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

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