Dear Roy,
Thanks a lot for this package. I am trying to make an image gallery working in a shiny app, and it works but I wonder if there is a possibility in your package to load images' thumbnails? It seems that what I am trying to do is very slow to load the images.
Secondly, I have been using ThumbsPlus to create image galleries (see https://plantgallery.bio.gov.sc/Fern.html) with a nice background color, and where I can use information from the data.frame to be displayed below each image. Is there a way to do something similar with R/your package?
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I'd like to use pixture on several different Rmarkdown sites, but where I will be generating the list of image paths and captions in R code,
and output: may be to html_document, distill, etc.

I'd like to see an actual complete use example of an Rmd file that creates the image gallery.

Pixture looks really awesome, and can be super useful with parameterized reports. I'm looking to implement pixture in a museum setting where I have a large number of images. However, I'm having trouble executing pixgallery() with local files. The function works flawlessly with URL's but does not seem to work with local files. Hopefully I'm not missing something obvious.

Local images example not working

Following the Pixgallery article, I use list files to get a list of images with relative paths and pass these to pixgallery(). However, the function returns blank squares.

paths <- list.files("../images", full.names = TRUE)
paths

[1] "../images/brittany-1937051_960_720.jpg"                                    
[2] "../images/lostmarch-menhir.jpg"                                            
[3] "../images/Menhir_du_Champ_Dolent.jpg"                                      
[4] "../images/Organ_Mountains-Desert_Peaks_National_Monument_(17717943249).jpg"

The issue seems to be isolated to pixgallery() because I can display images using functions from other libraries like imager with plot.

library(imager)

im<-load.image(paths[2])
plot(im)

Sample local images not working

Additionally, the local images example that is based on sample images from the package also does not work. When I generate this set of paths, I can also display these from the paths list using imagr with plot.

paths <- list.files(system.file("extdata/images", package="pixture"), full=TRUE)
paths

pixgallery(paths)

Just as in the article example, the output is six blank squares.

However, I can plot items from the list.

im<-load.image(paths[6])
plot(im)

Any thoughts on how to address this? Is it something at my end, or is there another way to approach this? Thank you for any insight you might have.

sessionInfo

R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19044)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8 LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] imager_0.42.13 stringr_1.4.0 purrr_0.3.4 magrittr_2.0.3 pixture_0.0.2.2001

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] igraph_1.3.1 Rcpp_1.0.8.3 rstudioapi_0.13 knitr_1.39 here_1.0.1 xtable_1.8-4
[7] R6_2.5.1 jpeg_0.1-9 rlang_1.0.3 fastmap_1.1.0 tools_4.2.0 xfun_0.30
[13] png_0.1-7 cli_3.3.0 htmltools_0.5.2 ellipsis_0.3.2 rprojroot_2.0.3 yaml_2.3.5
[19] digest_0.6.29 lifecycle_1.0.1 bmp_0.3 shiny_1.7.1 later_1.3.0 htmlwidgets_1.5.4
[25] promises_1.2.0.1 mime_0.12 tiff_0.1-11 readbitmap_0.1.5 stringi_1.7.6 compiler_4.2.0
[31] jsonlite_1.8.0 httpuv_1.6.5 pkgconfig_2.0.3

I've been trying to center the gallery but can't seem to figure it out. I've tried specifying that in my CSS file, but no success.

.html-widget {
    margin: auto;
}

Hi there,

I use pixture for my personal website and I really enjoy this package. I have recently updated R and unfortunately pixture is not available for the newest versions of R.

Is there a plan to update the package?

Thank you very much!