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Read and write PNG images

v0.1-9 · Mar 15, 2026 · GPL-2 | GPL-3
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Description

This package provides an easy and simple way to read, write and display bitmap images stored in the PNG format. It can read and write both files and in-memory raw vectors.

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Maintainer: ‘Simon Urbanek <Simon.Urbanek@r-project.org>’

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  Authors@R: person(given = "Simon",
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Maintainer: ‘Simon Urbanek <Simon.Urbanek@r-project.org>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Simon",
                    family = "Urbanek",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "Simon.Urbanek@r-project.org")
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Reverse Dependencies (277)

depends

gdi orloca

imports

AdhereR AnanseSeurat BayesianReasoning BioTrajectory DIscBIO EpiReport Fgmutils GIMMEgVAR HiveR ICtest IMak Jdmbs MACER MBNMAtime OpenImageR PvSTATEM RMThreshold RPPASPACE RXKCD RevGadgets RgoogleMaps Rigma RootscanR Rsgf SAFARI SIPDIBGE SNPannotator SOFIA SerolyzeR Seurat Spectran StereoMorph Thermimage Umatrix VertexWiseR acro airGRiwrm baRulho bfw bittermelon bwimage cartography charisma classifierplots cmsafvis colordistance colorfindr colorrepel colouR colourlovers cols4all cooltools countcolors ctsem dadjokeapi details distill docorator dplR drhutools dtrackr dynaSpec expDB eyetools fDMA fastai fishualize gMOIP galisats geoflow gexp ggDNAvis ggimg ggmap ggrastr ggwordcloud googletraffic grImport2 gridpattern gridtext grobblR handwriter iCellR iRfcb imager iplots kanjistat kgschart kmeRtone latticeExtra leafem leaflet loa lterpalettefinder mapboxapi mapgl mapscanner maptiles mapview marquee materialmodifier measuRing memery monographaR nasadata netSEM nomnoml paleotree pangaear patternplot pid piecepackr plainview qgraph qrencoder quadmesh radiant.data rasterize rasterpdf rasterpic rayimage rayrender rayshader rayvertex rcdk readbitmap recolorize reticulate retistruct rosm rphylopic rsixel rstac rsyntax rtrek showimage sketcher skiftiTools slendr slippymath spatialGE spork starsTileServer surreal tableHTML tabulapdf terrainr tfevents threeBrain tidyllm tidytlg tikzDevice tiler torchvision trackdem wal x3ptools xgxr zooimage

suggests

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Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies gdi orloca AdhereR AnanseSeurat BayesianReasoning BioTrajectory DIscBIO EpiReport Fgmutils GIMMEgVAR HiveR ICtest IMak Jdmbs MACER +262 more reverse deps png

Version History

updated 0.1-9 ← 0.1-8 diff Mar 15, 2026
new 0.1-8 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.1-8 ← 0.1-7 diff Nov 28, 2022
updated 0.1-7 ← 0.1-6 diff Dec 2, 2013
updated 0.1-6 ← 0.1-5 diff Aug 1, 2013
updated 0.1-5 ← 0.1-4 diff Jun 2, 2013
updated 0.1-4 ← 0.1-3 diff Dec 10, 2011
updated 0.1-3 ← 0.1-2 diff Sep 2, 2011
updated 0.1-2 ← 0.1-1 diff Jan 19, 2011
updated 0.1-1 ← 0.1-0 diff Apr 5, 2010
new 0.1-0 Mar 16, 2010