installr (version 0.22.0)

install.ImageMagick: Downloads and installs ImageMagick for windows

Description

Allows the user to downloads and install the latest version of ImageMagick for Windows.

Usage

install.ImageMagick(URL = "http://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php",
  ...)

Arguments

URL

the URL of the ImageMagick download page.

...

extra parameters to pass to install.URL

Value

TRUE/FALSE - was the installation successful or not.

Details

ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bezier curves. This function downloads Win32 dynamic at 16 bits-per-pixel.

References

• ImageMagick homepage: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

Examples

# NOT RUN {
install.ImageMagick() # installs the latest version of ImageMagick
# }