similar to: Reading 64-bit integers

Dear all, The version of readBin() in R-devel includes a use of match(), through `%in%`, which can affect its performance significantly. By using primitives instead of the rather expensive call to match(), I reduce the time spent inside readBin() by more than 30% in some of my code (part of the tractor.base package). A simple patch that does this is given below. This passes "make

Hi folks: This may be a stupid question, but I cannot seem to find a way to tell readBin that I want to read 2-byte integers from the connection. The input file is 150,720 bytes long containing 75,360 short (2-byte) integers. But specifying "integer" or "int" for what in readBin only returns me a vector of length 37680, leading me to believe that sizeof(integer) or

Dear all, I'm trying to write an efficient binary file reader for a file type that is made up of several fields of variable length, and so requires many small reads. Doing this on the file directly using a sequence of readBin() calls is a bit too slow for my needs, so I tried buffering the file into a raw vector and reading from that ("loc" is the equivalent of the file pointer):

Dear all, I'm trying to write an efficient binary file reader for a file type that is made up of several fields of variable length, and so requires many small reads. Doing this on the file directly using a sequence of readBin() calls is a bit too slow for my needs, so I tried buffering the file into a raw vector and reading from that ("loc" is the equivalent of the file pointer):

Hi, A piece of my code that uses readBin() to read a certain file type is behaving strangely with R 2.7.0. This seems to be because of a failure to match() strings after using rawToChar() when the original was terminated with a "\0" character. Direct equality testing with == still works as expected. I can reproduce this as follows: > x <- "foo" > y <-

I think it would be helpful if readBin checked that its endian argument is a legal value. Why? I was reviewing some of our code and noticed that the author had readBin(..., endian="network") and never having heard of "network", I looked at the man page for readBin, and it hadn't heard of "network" either. Not good. I then looked at the R code for readBin, which

Hello I'm encountering some difficulty correctly reading binary files. The binary files store data as "short" rather than "double" , "int", or any of the other modes of the vector being read. The data represents a regular grid of size 419 rows by 264 columns, to make it more interesting, the data are daily records, for a total of 37 years. The file size is

Hello, I'm wondering if I can get some help with reading Fortran binary "unformatted" output files into R. The Fortran output files were generated in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS using gfortran4.4, on a 32bit Intel Core 2 Duo 3.16 GHz machine, with little-endian and record marker lengths equal to 4. The machine I'm currently trying to read this Fortran output file is a Macbook Pro

Hi all, I have a binary file which have 8*100 bytes. The structure of the file is as follows: every eigth bytes represent 2 data:the first four bytes is the little-endian for integer, the next four bytes is the little-endian for floating32. The structure of the following bytes is as the same as the first eight bytes'. As the function readBin only read the binary file with one structure

Posting for a friend Begin forwarded message: From: "Geier, Florian" <florian.geier08@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:florian.geier08@imperial.ac.uk>> Subject: Fwd: readBin fails to read large files Date: September 1, 2011 4:10:53 PM GMT+01:00 To: Begin forwarded message: Date: 1 September 2011 16:01:45 GMT+01:00 Subject: readBin fails to read large files Dear all, I am trying

Hi, The latest version of R had some changes to functions "readbin() and writeBin() [which] now support raw vectors as well as filenames and connections.". As a result I am working on retiring "raw2bin" and "bin2raw" functions from "caTools" package which do exactly the same. Thanks to Prof. Ripley for bringing this change to my attention. Which brings me

Dear R Gurus, for some purpose i have to use a socket connection, where i have to read and write both text and binary data (each binary data package will be preceeded by a header line). When experimenting, i encountered some problems (with R-2.0.1 under different Linuxes (SuSE and Gentoo)). Since the default mode for socket connections is non-blocking, i first tried socketSelect() in order to

Dear All, The code given bellow is to extract values of one region and write that to a text file(there are 365 binary files in the directory). The problem which I am facing is that all my files are binary with size of 360 rows and 720 columns. I specified that in this line: file2<-matrix(data=file,ncol=720,nrow=360) but I got an error : Error in mean(file2[X, Y], na.rm = TRUE) : subscript

Hi, I've read up on readBin() and chapter 6 in the R Data Import/Export manual, but I still can't read a binary file. Here is how the creator of the file described the code that would be needed in Fortran: "Every record has a return in fortran. The length of each record is nx*ny*4. To read you would use the following: nlayx = nx*ny*4 do iz=1,nz,4 read(binary file) var(1:nlayx)

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}} +

The structure of the file is clear (see below) the first line is made of integers and doubles with the fifth being a text string followed by arrays of double precision number.: int1 int2 double1 double2 text int3 int4 int5 (array of double) here is an example of file: 1 1 1.0 1.0 "HEAD" 160 224 3 23.4 34.5 ...... I tried to read the first line with readBin (results are copied below):

Sorry for the simple question, but I am trying to read an "unsigned long long" using the R readBin() function. Can someone point me in the right direction, or am I better off using C for such things? The file that I am reading will have been produced on the same machine that is doing the reading. Thanks, Sean

Hey guys, I am currently trying to read in a binary file using this helpful manual: http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/r/faq/read_binary.htm Reading binary files I also have the detailed format description from the developer. But somehow the reading of the file does still not work properly. The first entry in the file is the following, according to the manufacturer: "String containing 4 one-byte

I found that seek(..., origin = 'current', ...) and readBin(..., what = 'integer', ...) or 'int' do not work correctly. Did anyone have the same experience?

Hello, Has a function been built that will skip to a certain bit in a binary file? As of 2009 the answer was 'no': http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/read-binary-file-seek-td900847.html https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-May/199819.html If you feel I don't need to (like in the links above), please provide some help. (Note this is my first time working with binary files.) I'm