Package: FITSio
Type: Package
Title: FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) utilities
Version: 1.0-2
Date: 2008-08-03
Author: Andrew Harris
Maintainer: Andrew Harris <harris@astro.umd.edu>
Depends: R (>= 2.0.0)
Description: Utilities to read and write files in the FITS (Flexible
  Image Transport System) format, a standard format in astronomy.
  Present low-level routines allow:
    * Reading and parsing FITS headers
    * Reading FITS images (multi-dimensional arrays)
    * Reading FITS binary tables
    * 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 bintable
    * Reading bintables into data frames
    * Generating vectors for image array axes
    * Scaling and writing images as 16-bit integers
  Known incompletenesses are reading FITS ASCII table and random group
  extensions, as well as bit, complex, and array descriptor data types 
  in binary tables.  
License: GPL (>= 2)
Packaged: Sun Aug  3 20:45:01 2008; Harris
