# R

OME does not currently provide an R implementation for Bio-Formats. However, there are options provided by the community:

## Bioconductor RBioFormats

Bioconductor is a project to develop, support, and disseminate free open source software that facilitates rigorous and reproducible analysis of data from current and emerging biological assays. Most Bioconductor components are distributed as R packages, this includes RBioFormats. RBioFormats is an R package which interfaces the OME Bio-Formats Java library to allow reading of proprietary microscopy image data and metadata.

## Installation

To install this package, start R (version “4.3”) and enter:

    if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
      install.packages("BiocManager")

    # The following initializes usage of Bioc devel
    BiocManager::install(version='devel')

    BiocManager::install("RBioFormats")

## Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:

    browseVignettes("RBioFormats")

See also

RBioFormats

  Website for the RBioFormats package

Using Bio-Formats in R

  Section of the developer documentation describing the R wrapper for Bio-Formats used by RBioFormats