Dear Suzen, Thank you for your reply.
I don't know why but it looks like my previous mail was truncated. Here is the R function (described in the step #4 in my previous mail) that I wrote. It contains .Fortran but like I said earlier, it didn't work. ************************************ img<-c(n_col) Read_binary<-function(n_samples,line,type) { as.integer(n_samples), as.intger(line), as.integer(typ), img=as.single(img) } ************************************ Armel -----Original Message----- From: mehmet.su...@gmail.com [mailto:mehmet.su...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Suzen, Mehmet Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 3:17 AM To: Kaptue Tchuente, Armel Subject: Re: [R] How to read a direct access file by connecting fortran with R ? On 19 April 2013 07:05, Kaptue Tchuente, Armel <armel.kap...@sdstate.edu> wrote: > 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 read_binary.f90 > ************************************ > Subroutine read_binary (n_col,row,img) > > integer*1 :: im1(n_col) > integer*1 :: im2(n_col) > integer*1 :: im2(n_col) > > > open(10,file=binary_file,access=direct,action=read,status='old',recl=n_col*p) > if(p==1) then > read(10,rec=row) img1 > img=img1 > else if(p==2) then > read(10,rec=row) img2 > img=img2 > else > read(10,rec=row) img3 > img=img3 > endif > close(10) > > End subroutine read_binary > ************************************ > > II) R CMD SHLIB read_binary.f90 > > III) dyn.load("read_libray.so") > > IV) Then in R, I tried many variant of the following function but I > wasn't able to store the line number row into the vector img At this stage you need to use .Fortran; .Fortran("read_binary", as.integer(n_samples), as.intger(line), img=as.single(img)); See ?.Fortran ______________________________________________ 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.