ijtiff: An R package providing TIFF I/O for ImageJ users

ImageJ (Schindelin et al. 2015) is the image viewing and processing GUI of choice for many in the fields of biology and microscopy. It is free and open-source. ijtiff is an R package which can correctly import TIFF files that were saved from ImageJ and write TIFF files than can be correctly read by ImageJ. Due to the sometimes strange way that ImageJ writes TIFF files, the original R tiff package (Urbanek 2013) may not correctly recognise their channel structure. ijtiff also goes beyond tiff in facilitating the writing of floating point (real-numbered) TIFF files from R.