SpatialFeatureExperiment
and the Voyager
package work with
images differently from SpatialExperiment
. In SFE and
Voyager
's, plotting functions for SFE objects, the images can be read
with rast
and represented as SpatRaster
, so the image is
not entirely loaded into memory unless necessary. Plotting will not load a
large image into memory; rather the image will be downsampled and the
downsampled version is plotted. A SpatRasterImage
object (as of Bioc
3.19 or SFE version 1.6 and above) is a SpatRaster
object but also
inheriting from VirtualSpatialImage
as required by
SpatialExperiment
.