R: Get the description on a TIFF file.

getDescription {rtiff} | R Documentation

## Get the description on a TIFF file.

### Description

Gets the TIFF description field (tag 270) for a TIFF file.

### Usage

    getDescription(fn)

### Arguments

`fn` | The name of the tiff file.

### Value

A string with the description field from the TIFF file, or `NA` if there is no such field.

### Author(s)

Eric Kort <eric.kort@vai.org>

### Examples

    # This has no description
    getDescription(system.file("tiff", "jello.tif", package="rtiff"))
    # but this has
    getDescription(system.file("tiff", "t1.tif", package="rtiff"))

[Package rtiff version 1.4.6 Index]