Preview a saved PNG in an R device window

Question

Is there a way print an existing PNG file to the device window, for example, let\'s say that you have saved a plot as PNG but you would like to preview it (for sanity) befor

Answer 1

Use ImageMagick library for all your image processing needs. It is brought to you as magick package to R. See the introductory vignette.

install.packages('magick')

img <- magick::image_read('/path/image.png')
plot(img) # or print(img)