On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, David Coppit wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Has anyone written a parser in Java for either the ASCII or binary format > produced by save()? I need to parse a single large 2D array that is > structured like this: > > list( > "32609_1" = c(-9549.39231289146, -9574.07159324482, ... ), > "32610_2" = c(-6369.12526971635, -6403.99620977124, ... ), > "32618_2" = c(-2138.29095689061, -2057.9229403233, ... ), > ... > ) > > Or, given that I'm dealing with just a single array, would it be better to > roll my own I/O using write.table or write.matrix from the MASS package?
It would be much easier. The save() format is far more complex than you need. However, I would use writeBin() to write a binary file and read that in in Java, avoiding the binary -> ASCII -> binary conversion. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.