Question

I am searching for a simple way to plot a photographic JPEG image on a graphics device in R.

For example the following using the raster package appears to ignore the colour attributes in the image. I want to reproduce the photograph in its original colours:

library(raster)
library(rgdal)

myJPG <- raster("colourfulPic.jpg")
plot(myJPG)  ## Recolours JPEG;

I have discovered that the package rimage has recently been archived and appears to no longer be recommended for use (see here), if it, indeed, ever did what I need.

Similarly the EBImage for BioConductor, which may also possibly work, is not built for 64 bit Windows, and unfortunately I need this architecture.

Please tell me I missing something very obvious in base graphics?

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Answer 1

Instead of rimage, perhaps use the package ReadImages:

library('ReadImages')
myjpg <- read.jpeg('E:/bigfoot.jpg')
plot(myjpg)