exifr

0.3.2

EXIF Image Data in R

0packages depend

20.4Kdownloads / year

85.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Dewey DunningtonFirst published 2016-02-057 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Reads EXIF data using ExifTool https://exiftool.org and returns results as a data frame. ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files. ExifTool supports many different metadata formats including EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and ID3, as well as the maker notes of many digital cameras by Canon, Casio, FLIR, FujiFilm, GE, HP, JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf, Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Motorola, Nikon, Nintendo, Olympus/Epson, Panasonic/Leica, Pentax/Asahi, Phase One, Reconyx, Ricoh, Samsung, Sanyo, Sigma/Foveon and Sony.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)

install.packages("exifr", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("paleolimbot/exifr")

Development version from paleolimbot/exifr. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-exifr

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ paleolimbot/exifr

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4Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

65Commits

1Contributors

65 commits · Last activity 2021-03-20 · 0% stars, 30d

Repository practices

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Continuous integration (1)

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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (6)

curl plyr tibble jsonliteutilsrappdirs

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat covr

Enhances (0)

none

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0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Dewey Dunnington

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Dewey Dunnington

Author, Maintainer

Phil Harvey

Author

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-02-05
Total releases: 7 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 18 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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