# Using Bio-Formats in R

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

## Bioconductor RBioFormats

The RBioFormats project from Bioconductor provides an R package which interfaces the OME Bio-Formats Java library to allow reading of proprietary microscopy image data and metadata.:

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

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

    BiocManager::install("RBioFormats")

    # To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system
    browseVignettes("RBioFormats")

For further details and examples of how to use the package, please see the API documentation