how to download and display an image from an URL in R?
Solution 1
If I try your code it looks like the image is downloaded. However, when opened with windows image viewer it also says it is corrupt.
The reason for this is that you don't have specified the mode
in the download.file
statement.
Try this:
download.file(y,'y.jpg', mode = 'wb')
For more info about the mode is see ?download.file
This way at least the file that you downloaded is working.
To view the image in R, have a look at
jj <- readJPEG("y.jpg",native=TRUE)
plot(0:1,0:1,type="n",ann=FALSE,axes=FALSE)
rasterImage(jj,0,0,1,1)
or how to read.jpeg in R 2.15 or Displaying images in R in version 3.1.0
Solution 2
this could work too here
library("jpeg")
library("png")
x <- "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/AaronEckhart10TIFF.jpg"
image_name<- readJPEG(getURLContent(x)) # for jpg
image_name<- readPNG(getURLContent(x)) # for png
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My goal is to download an image from an URL and then display it in R.
I got an URL and figured out how to download it. But the downloaded file can't be previewed because it is 'damaged, corrupted, or is too big'.
y = "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/AaronEckhart10TIFF.jpg" download.file(y, 'y.jpg')
I also tried
image('y.jpg')
in R, but the error message shows like:
Error in image.default("y.jpg") : argument must be matrix-like
Any suggestions?