[Rd] Re: [R] File Reading Problem (PR#4043)

[dmurdoch at pair.com]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 14:26:43 -0700, "Jiming Yu"
<jimingyu at 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 then 8stack imbalance in
.Internal, 8 then 7
stack imbalance in {, 6 then 5
NULL
Error: unprotect(): stack imbalance

This was in today's r-devel build for Windows, but the bug also shows
up in 1.7.1.  I'll look into it.

Duncan Murdoch