similar to: Reading binary files

Hello all, I would like to read the specific line number row of a direct access file (which is stored as a n_row*n_col matrix of elements kind=p) without reading all the preceding lines (i.e 1,2,..,row-1). Is there a function in R that can perform this task? To solve my issue, I tried without to call Fortran from R by doing the following steps: I) I wrote a subroutine in fortran called

Hello, I am trying to read in elements out of a very large binary file ... the total file is 4 gigs. I want to select rows out of the file, and the current procedure I run works but is prohibitively slow (takes more than a day to run and still won't complete). Is there any faster way to accomplish this? My current procedure looks like this: readHH <- function(file_name,

Full_Name: Hugh C. Pumphrey Version: 1.4.1 OS: Linux (Debian Woody) Submission from: (NULL) (129.215.133.170) The function readChar() appears to have some type of problem with memory allocation. I don't know if "memory leak" is the correct term but if one uses readChar() many times, the R binary grows in size until it eats all your memory and swap space. The code enclosed below

*Hi @ all, I have a question concerning the possibilty of grouping the columns of a matrix. R groups the columns alphabetically. What can I do to group the columns in my specifications? The script is the following:* > #R-Skript: Anzahl xyz > > #Quelldatei einlesen > b<-read.csv2("Z:/int/xyz.csv", header=TRUE) > > #Teilmengen f?r die Einzeljahre generieren >

Dear R user, I am running R under Windows 2000. I am looking for a routine for importing - shape files (ESRI) into R - dbase files (FOXPRO) into R and I am looking for time-space models for description and prediction of Bernoulli-, Binomial- and Poissonvaraibles. Thank's a lot for a reply. Sincerely yours, Ekkehardt Altpeter Swiss Federal Office of Public

Full_Name: Ken Yap Version: 1.6.1 OS: Linux (SuSE 8.0) Submission from: (NULL) (129.78.64.5) I'm trying to copy a file using readBin and writeBin. (The reason is to be able to pipe PostScript or PDF output to a socket later, this is just an experiment.) I do: zz <- file("foo.ps", "rb") r <- readBin(zz, character(), 1000000) yy <- file("bar.ps",

Hi, The man page for readBin has a small typo: --- a/src/library/base/man/readBin.Rd +++ b/src/library/base/man/readBin.Rd @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ writeBin(object, con, size = NA, endian \code{readBin} and \code{writeBin} read and write C-style zero-terminated character strings. Input strings are limited to 10000 - characters. \code{\link{readChar}} and \code{\code{writeChar}} +

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 14:26:43 -0700, "Jiming Yu" <jimingyu@princeton.edu> wrote: >Dear all, > I am trying to read characters byte by byte(in their ASCII codes) from a >file I was going to suggest using readBin, but there seems to be a bug: > con <- file('c:/test.txt','rb') > readBin(con,'c',15,1) stack imbalance in internal readBin, 9

I'm trying to read a binary file created by a fortran code using readBin and readChar. Everything reads fine (integers and strings) except for double precision numbers, they are read as huge or very small number (1E-250,...). I tried various endianness, swap, But nothing has worked so far. I also tried on R 64 bit for linux and windows (R 2.14) and R 2.11 on windows XP 32 bit. Any help would

Hello! I have problems with using of "readBin" to read files, which was written in C with "fwrite". In the C-File there is the following Code: fwrite(MyitINI,sizeof(itINItype),1,outfile); where MyitINI is a structure of the following form typedef struct{ int KernelFileSave; /* Determined, if Systemmatrix saved or not.*/ char KernelFileName[200]; /* A-Matrix name

Hi, I am trying to read in records from an old main frame file. Each record is 640 bytes. I had some success using the following statement: iconv(readChar(con, nchars=640, useBytes = TRUE),from="IBM037",to="",sub="#") What I have found, however, is that ocassionally a record will contain a Null halfway through, which causes readChar() not to read the rest of the

I have R code to read a binary header file, consisting of several readBin() and readChar() statements. I am currently using version R-2.2.1 (on x86_64, RH EL4) and have received the following error Error in readChar(fid, n = 1) : invalid UTF-8 input in readChar() This is strange because (a) I was able to read in this file successfully in previous versions of R (circa 2005) and (b) it

On Fri, 26 Jan 2024, Michael Chirico wrote: > I am curious why readLines() has a default (n=-1L) to read the full > file while readChar() has no default for nchars= (i.e., readChar(file) > is an error). Is there a technical reason for this? > > I often[1] see code like paste(readLines(f), collapse="\n") which > would be better served by readChar(), especially given

My opinion is that the proposed feature would be greatly appreciated by users. I had always wondered if I was the only one doing paste(readLines(f), collapse="\n") all the time. It would be great to have the proposed, more straightforward way to read the whole file as a string: readChar("my_file.txt", -1) or even better readChar("my_file.txt") Thanks for your detailed

I am curious why readLines() has a default (n=-1L) to read the full file while readChar() has no default for nchars= (i.e., readChar(file) is an error). Is there a technical reason for this? I often[1] see code like paste(readLines(f), collapse="\n") which would be better served by readChar(), especially given issues with the global string cache I've come across[2]. But lacking the

Trying to copy the (binary) header of a input file directly to an output file, I've had repeatable seg faults. The call: writeChar(hdr, outfh, nchars=6144) when hdr just contains one empty string seems to be the culprit. The stack traces weren't all that illuminating, with sig 11 in memory-related functions following this. But in src/main/connections.c it looks like do_writechar

Hi all, Probably a rudimentary question. I have a flat file that looks like this (the real one has ~10e6 elements): 10110100101001011101011 and I want to pull that into R as a vector, but with each digit being it's own element. There are no separators between the digits. How can I accomplish this? Thanks in advance! Matt -- Matthew C Keller Asst. Professor of Psychology University of

I have problems configuring Win-clients with Samba 3 / Debian-Etch-Server. Trying to connect the win-clients, the error at logon is: no primary domain or wrong password the server log reads: [2006/09/15 13:34:14, 3] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X_spnego(691) NativeOS=[Unix] NativeLanMan=[Samba] PrimaryDomain=[] [2006/09/15 13:34:14, 3] libsmb/ntlmssp.c:ntlmssp_server_auth(672) Got

Have searched through the archives but have been unable to find any related issues - hopefully I'm not bringing up an old topic. Am using RW1041 on a Windows NT on a machine with 1Gb of memory. Have a function doit() that reads in a chunk of data using readBin, performs a regression, saves out coeffs and then returns. When using Rgui with the default memory limit of 256Mb I'm able to

I have some C code (using an old Borland compiler) that calls a DLL that I'd like to get working from Windows and R (so I can read ABF files -- Axon Binary Files -- directly in R). I thought a good first approach would be able to build R in Windows, so that's what I'm trying to do. [I've done test builds of R under Linux before, and that seemed fairly simple.] I've