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tractor.base (version 3.5.2.1)

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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3.5.2.1

License

GPL-2

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Repository

https://github.com/tractor/tractor

Homepage

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

Maintainer

Jon Clayden

Last Published

August 21st, 2026

Functions in tractor.base (3.5.2.1)

Shorthand anonymous functions

Create a character string by concatenating the elements of a vector

Extract one or more elements from a list

identifyImageFileNames

Resolve image paths

createNeighbourhoodInfo

Image neighbourhoods

Merging MriImage objects

[,SparseArray,ANY,ANY-method

Indexing methods

Resolve a variable to a default when NULL

Lists of serialisable objects

Image file sets

Functions for file name and path manipulation

readDiffusionScheme

Read and write diffusion schemes

Number agreement with a vector

newSparseArrayWithData

Create a SparseArray object

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

Read a DICOM file into a DicomMetadata object

printLabelledValues

Pretty print labelled information

readDicomDirectory

Read a directory of DICOM files

Reading and writing image files

threadSafeTempFile

Obtain thread-safe temporary file names

Miscellaneous vector functions

Compact conditional values

augmentedInfoPanel

A simple interactive viewer for MriImage objects

sortDicomDirectories

Sort a directory of DICOM files into series

isDeserialisable

Reference object serialisation and deserialisation

createSliceGraphic

Visualise MriImage objects

ImageFileSet-class

The ImageFileSet class

TractorObject-class

The TractorObject class

SparseArray-class

The SparseArray class

DiffusionScheme-class

The DiffusionScheme class

The FileSet class

DicomMetadata-class

The DicomMetadata class

SerialisableObject-class

The SerialisableObject class

The FileMap class

The MriImage class

Creating MriImage objects from data

locateExecutable

Find or run an external executable file

Test two numeric vectors for equivalence

Obtaining colour scales

Assign image volumes to shells

The empty matrix

Test whether all elements of a vector are equal

Combine similar strings into one

asDiffusionScheme

Create a DiffusionScheme object from data

Concatenate and deduplicate vectors