how to download and display an image from an URL in R?

Question

My goal is to download an image from an URL and then display it in R.

I got an URL and figured out how to download it. But the downloaded file can\'t be previewed be

Answer 1

this could work too here

library("jpeg")

library("png")

x <- "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/AaronEckhart10TIFF.jpg"    

image_name<- readJPEG(getURLContent(x)) # for jpg

image_name<- readPNG(getURLContent(x)) # for png