magick

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeroen OomsFirst published 2016-07-2442 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Bindings to 'ImageMagick': the most comprehensive open-source image processing library available. Supports many common formats (png, jpeg, tiff, pdf, etc) and manipulations (rotate, scale, crop, trim, flip, blur, etc). All operations are vectorized via the Magick++ STL meaning they operate either on a single frame or a series of frames for working with layers, collages, or animation. In RStudio images are automatically previewed when printed to the console, resulting in an interactive editing environment. Also includes a graphics device for creating drawing onto images using pixel coordinates.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("magick", 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("ropensci/magick")

Development version from ropensci/magick. 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-magick

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

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-magick

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-magick

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 13.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

8.3%

Coverage · measured lines

99%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

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ERROR2026-04-28
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NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 95%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 7%

Downloads

2.5M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #242 · ~6.8K/day · ~205.9K/mo

Releases R versions

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184.9K30 days

595.1K90 days

2.5M1 year

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Also on18.7K r2u117 autocran36.9K conda_forge301 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/magick

481Stars

66Forks

88Open issues

7Open PRs

32Releases

1,159Commits

29Contributors

image-processingimage-manipulationrrstatsimagemagickr-package

1,159 commits · Last activity 2026-05-08 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-02 · 4682026-07-07 · 481

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/magick on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (3)

Rcpp magrittr curl

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (14)

av spelling jsonlitemethodsknitr rmarkdown rsvg webp pdftools ggplot2 gapminder IRdisplay tesseract gifski

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

230direct

55indirect

and 182 more packages.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

C++ 4,659 (42%)R 3,371 (30%)Rd 2,460 (22%)Vignettes 514 (5%)C 82 (1%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S316

Cyclomatic complexity: 1.0 median / 25 max
System requirements: 1 external

Test coverage

Line coverage

8%

Expression

7.9%

Tests / Examples

8.3% / 65% ex

Functions

649 136 exported

Complexity

1.4 avg / 25 max

Call network

649 nodes / 710 edges

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Lowest coverage

649 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
as_EBImage exp	4	0%
autoviewer_disable exp	1	0%
channel_types exp	1	0%
coder_info exp	1	0%
colorspace_types exp	1	0%
compose_types exp	1	0%

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-07-24
Total releases: 42 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 4.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet