read.metadata: Read Image Metadata

View source: R/read.metadata.R

read.metadataR Documentation

Read Image Metadata

Description

Read image metadata using the Bio-Formats library. The list of supported file formats can be found on the Bio-Formats website.

Usage

read.metadata(file, filter.metadata = FALSE, proprietary.metadata = TRUE)

Arguments

file

character, file name

filter.metadata

logical, specifies whether ugly metadata (entries with unprintable characters, and extremely large entries) should be discarded from the metadata table

proprietary.metadata

logical, should proprietary metadata be populated to OME-XML

Value

An ImageMetadata or ImageMetadataList object.

Author(s)

Andrzej OleÅ› <andrzej.oles@gmail.com>, 2014-2023

See Also

read.omexml for reading image metadata as OME-XML, read.image for reading image data

Examples

require(EBImage)
f = system.file("images", "nuclei.tif", package="EBImage")

metadata = read.metadata(f)
str(metadata)

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