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stevec
stevec

Reputation: 52308

Convert png to svg in R?

Is there a convenient way to convert a .png to .svg using only base R or CRAN functions?

Currently I'm using an external (point and click) program to convert images. Would be very handy to be able to do so in R

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1811

Answers (1)

oszkar
oszkar

Reputation: 992

You are looking for the image_convert function from the magick package. Check the package description and the 'Converting formats' section from the package vignette.

Actually it is using 'ImageMagick', an open-source image processing library worth a look itself.

Example code

library(magick)
my_image <- image_read("image.png")
my_svg <- image_convert(my_image, format="svg")
image_write(my_svg, "image.svg")

dir()
[1] "image.png"   "image.svg"

Upvotes: 7

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