Load image from website

Question

I am trying to add some chemical structure images to some plots I have created. I am using the ACToR database to access the chemical structures. For example:

Answer 1

Please note that the Bioconductor R package EBImage is capable of loading images directly from an URL and visualizing them:

library(EBImage)

img = readImage("path/to/your/image/file or URL")
display(img, method = "raster")

Cheers,

Andrzej