[R] Reading binary files

[Nortisiv]

Rui Barradas wrote
> 
> Hello,
> 
>  From the help page for readBin:
> 
> "readBin and writeBin read and write C-style zero-terminated character 
> strings."
> 
> 
> Your description of the string doesn't match this one. To read any sort 
> of character strings, use readChar.
> 
> readChar(to.read, nchars = 4, useBytes = TRUE)
> 
> Many times, when I have problems with readBin, this works.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Rui Barradas

Ok, that one worked, thanks alot. I would not have understood that "C-style
zero-terminated character strings" is something different. I guess I will
crash into more problems like this, as I am new to working with binary
files. 

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