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Behind the magick: updates to imagemagick and beyond

It has been a while since we posted an update about magick, but behind the scenes we are constantly tweaking and improving this package, which has become a very mature and complete toolkit for image processing in R.

Over the past year, we did 6 CRAN releases, containing many small features and fixes, but perhaps more importantly, the package is getting betting better due to updates of the underlying ImageMagick library.

As mentioned in the NEWS, magick 2.6.0 gains support for “raw” and “heif” delegates on Windows and MacOS. The raw delegate is based on libraw which allows reading RAW files obtained from digital photo cameras. Heif is a new library that provides a set of formats for high quality (Ultra HD+) images in HEVC and AV1 format. Support for these formats was requested by users of the R magick package.

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Learn All About HTTP Testing: Book Update

The ‘HTTP testing in R’ book has been updated. Useful for developers of packages interacting with web resources.

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