Import TIFF Image Data into R

Simple wrapper around tiff::readTIFF to import TIFF images and TIFF image stacks to be further processed within the 'Luminescence' package.

Usage

read_TIFF2R(file, merge2stack = FALSE, verbose = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

file: character (required): name of the TIFF file to read (URLs are supported).
merge2stack: logical (with default): if file is a list it merges the individual images into one image stack. Please note that the smallest image dimension determines pixel dimension of the output stack.
verbose: logical (with default): enable/disable output to the terminal.
...: not in use, for compatibility reasons only

Value

Returns an RLum.Data.Image object. Results are returned as a list when multiple files are processed or file is a list.

Function version

0.2.1

Author

Sebastian Kreutzer, F2.1 Geophysical Parametrisation/Regionalisation, LIAG - Institute for Applied Geophysics (Germany) , RLum Developer Team

How to cite

Kreutzer, S., 2026. read_TIFF2R(): Import TIFF Image Data into R. Function version 0.2.1. In: Kreutzer, S., Burow, C., Dietze, M., Fuchs, M.C., Schmidt, C., Fischer, M., Friedrich, J., Mercier, N., Philippe, A., Riedesel, S., Autzen, M., Mittelstrass, D., Gray, H.J., Galharret, J., Colombo, M., Steinbuch, L., Boer, A.d., Bluszcz, A., 2026. Luminescence: Comprehensive Luminescence Dating Data Analysis. R package version 1.2.1. https://r-lum.github.io/Luminescence/

Examples


## use system file
file <- system.file("extdata", "TIFFfile.tif", package = "Luminescence")

## import image
image <- read_TIFF2R(file)
#> 
#> [read_TIFF2R()] Importing ...
#>  path:  /home/runner/work/_temp/Library/Luminescence/extdata
#>  file:  TIFFfile.tif