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tractor.base (version 3.5.0)

Read, Manipulate and Visualise Magnetic Resonance Images

Description

Functions for working with magnetic resonance images. Reading and writing of popular file formats (DICOM, Analyze, NIfTI-1, NIfTI-2, MGH); interactive and non-interactive visualisation; flexible image manipulation; metadata and sparse image handling.

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install.packages('tractor.base')

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3.5.0

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GPL-2

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Repository

https://github.com/tractor/tractor

Homepage

https://www.tractor-mri.org.uk

Maintainer

Jon Clayden

Last Published

October 29th, 2025

Functions in tractor.base (3.5.0)

Creating MriImage objects from data

locateExecutable

Find or run an external executable file

Assign image volumes to shells

Test two numeric vectors for equivalence

Test whether all elements of a vector are equal

Concatenate and deduplicate vectors

The empty matrix

Obtaining colour scales

Combine similar strings into one

asDiffusionScheme

Create a DiffusionScheme object from data

Create a character string by concatenating the elements of a vector

Merging MriImage objects

Image file sets

[,SparseArray,ANY,ANY-method

Indexing methods

Shorthand anonymous functions

createNeighbourhoodInfo

Image neighbourhoods

Resolve a variable to a default when NULL

Extract one or more elements from a list

identifyImageFileNames

Resolve image paths

Lists of serialisable objects

Promote a vector to a single-column or single-row matrix

Reading and writing image files

Read a DICOM file into a DicomMetadata object

readDicomDirectory

Read a directory of DICOM files

Number agreement with a vector

printLabelledValues

Pretty print labelled information

newSparseArrayWithData

Create a SparseArray object

readDiffusionScheme

Read and write diffusion schemes

Functions for file name and path manipulation

createSliceGraphic

Visualise MriImage objects

Miscellaneous vector functions

augmentedInfoPanel

A simple interactive viewer for MriImage objects

threadSafeTempFile

Obtain thread-safe temporary file names

Compact conditional values

isDeserialisable

Reference object serialisation and deserialisation

sortDicomDirectories

Sort a directory of DICOM files into series

SparseArray-class

The SparseArray class

DiffusionScheme-class

The DiffusionScheme class

The MriImage class

DicomMetadata-class

The DicomMetadata class

The FileSet class

ImageFileSet-class

The ImageFileSet class

SerialisableObject-class

The SerialisableObject class

The FileMap class

TractorObject-class

The TractorObject class