... R-FITS is an R library designed to enable reading in FITS format files into the R environment. ... You must already have R and cfitsio installed. ... To install, first download the tar file that contains all the necessary files to a suitable directory (e.g., /path/to/rfits/installation/directory/ ) and then type cd /path/to/rfits/installation/directory/ gunzip -c rfits.tar.gz | ... rfits_read_image(file,hdu=1) . rfits_read_col(file,col=1,width=1,hdu=2) . rfits_read_key(file,key,hdu=2) . ...