Gregory Jefferis

Contributing.md could incorporate some ideas from https://github.com/atom/atom/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md and also point to https://devguide.ropensci.org/building.html. It would be good to cover issues of package dependencies explicitly both by linking to https://devguide.ropensci.org/building.html#package-dependencies and making...

Ah thanks. That problem is actually not to do with CMTK directly, but a secondary issue on windows. I do some tests to make sure that cmtk.bindir behaves by setting...

I think at some point should be doing: ``` r if(length(x)>0) dim(x)=dims ``` although not sure if re-setting dims on large `x` is wasteful.

Hmm, this is quite a tricky issue, because the dimension information is actually processed by im3d quite a bit, even when it has been passed explicitly by setting `im3d(x, dims=)`....

Does this mean we should be thinking about adding e.g. - `imnd` base class - `im2d` class or perhaps switching to an e.g. `im5d` class, which is completely general?

Hmm turns out this was a bit optimistic since much of the transform time seems to be spent reading and writing text files. @ajdm has details.

I'm actually coming back to the idea of doing this because we now have some xform backends that have a significant overhead for each external operation. For a specific example,...

maybe we should have a soma function as well.

Another possibility - we associate default options for e.g. soma radius with a given neuronlist.

This presently works for catmaid neurons but not othwerwise. See https://github.com/jefferis/rcatmaid/issues/62