[R] Binary Value into Text

Jim Lemon
Tue, 14 Jun 2016 00:56:29 -0000

Hi Fahman,
That error message usually means that there is no newline at the end
of the last line of the input file. Try adding a newline,

Jim


On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 1:17 AM, Fahman Khan via R-help
<r-help at r-project.org> wrote:
> I have written a following piece of code.
>> binaryFile <- file("sampleBinary.dat",
'rb')>readBin(binaryFile, character(), endian="little")
>
> I'm getting a warning message that says
>
> Warning message: In readBin(binaryFile, chracter(),
endian="little") : incomplete string at end of file has been discarded
>
> I did research on this topic but was still unable to solve.
>
> My file contains the following binary values: 01101000 01100101 01101100
01101100 01101111 00001010 which is hello in text. I just want to convert this
into text.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
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