rphylopic (version 0.3.0)

save_png: Save an image to disk as a .png file

Description

Save an image to disk as a .png file

Usage

save_png(img, target = tempfile(fileext = ".png"), ...)

Value

path to the .png file on disk

Arguments

img

A png object, e.g, from using image_data()

target

the file or other connection to write to, passed on to png::writePNG, see its docs for details. By default we use tempfile(fileext = ".png"), a temporary .png file which is cleaned up (deleted) at the end of the R session

...

additional parameters passed on to png::writePNG

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# get a silhouette
cat <- image_data("23cd6aa4-9587-4a2e-8e26-de42885004c9", size = 128)[[1]]

# save image
out <- save_png(cat)
identical(png::readPNG(out), cat)

save_png(cat, dpi = 1000)
}