The code used in this handbook is meant to be used in the open source,
interactive statistical processing environment commonly known as R,
and it is based on two image processing packages: AnImAl, an
image algebra, and TeMa, providing extended template matching
support. Both packages require additional ones, all of them freely
available from the central repository of CRAN, the Comprehensive R
Archive Network (http://cran.r-project.org). Detailed information
on the functions provided by each package is available within the
distributed packages. The following code snippet presents the commands
to load the required packages and a couple of supporting functions to
generate postscript output to be included in a research report.
1#1
This handbook makes use of Sweave functionalities available
within the R environment: the textual (latex) source files
include special sections of R-code that are automatically
executed before creating the final text for the document. Most of the
images presented in the book are automatically generated in this way:
correctness of reported code and alignment of results is therefore
ensured. The special Codelet sections are automatically
formatted from annotated code available in the provided packages or in
the set of code snippets used to generate the examples of this book.