Package: FITSio
Type: Package
Title: FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) Utilities
Version: 2.1-6
Date: 2021-04-03
Author: Andrew Harris
Maintainer: Andrew Harris <harris@astro.umd.edu>
Depends: R (>= 3.0.0)
Description: Utilities to read and write files in the FITS (Flexible
        Image Transport System) format, a standard format in astronomy
        (see e.g. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITS> for more
        information). Present low-level routines allow: reading,
        parsing, and modifying FITS headers; reading FITS images
        (multi-dimensional arrays); reading FITS binary and ASCII
        tables; and writing FITS images (multi-dimensional arrays).
        Higher-level functions allow: reading files composed of one or
        more headers and a single (perhaps multidimensional) image or
        single table; reading tables into data frames; generating
        vectors for image array axes; scaling and writing images as
        16-bit integers.  Known incompletenesses are reading random
        group extensions, as well as complex and array descriptor data
        types in binary tables.
License: GPL (>= 2)
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-10-13 11:13:35 UTC; root
Repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2021-04-03 18:10:02 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/cran/FITSio
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 70ec50e8b4cac12b280725d628493b6d867261b1