The R graphics engine has new support for rendering raster images via the functions rasterImage() and grid.raster(). This leads to better scaling of raster images, faster rendering to screen, and smaller graphics files. Several examples of possible applications of these new features are described.
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Murrell, "The R Journal: Raster Images in R Graphics", The R Journal, 2011
BibTeX citation
@article{RJ-2011-008,
author = {Murrell, Paul},
title = {The R Journal: Raster Images in R Graphics},
journal = {The R Journal},
year = {2011},
note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2011-008},
doi = {10.32614/RJ-2011-008},
volume = {3},
issue = {1},
issn = {2073-4859},
pages = {48-54}
}