I find the hexView package quite helpful for this.
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Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
>
>
>On 01.08.2013 10:36, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
>> Hello. readBin is designed to read a batch of data with the same
>spec,
>> e.g. read 10000 floats into a vector. In practise I read into data
>> frame, not vector. For each data frame, I need to read a integer and
>a
>> float.
>>
>> for (i in 1:1000) {
>> dataframe$int[i] <- readBin(con, integer(), size=2)
>> dataframe$float[i] <- readBin(con, numeric(), size=4)
>> }
>
>
>Ideally one would read bunches of identical types within R. This seems
>not to be possible here, hence I'd suggest to read it via some C code.
>
>Best,
>Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
>>
>> And I need to read 100 such data files, ending up with a for loop in
>a
>> for loop. Something feels wrong here, as it is being said if you use
>> double-FOR you are not speaking R.
>>
>> What is the R way of doing this? I can think of writing the content
>of
>> the loop into a function, and vectorize it -- But, the result would
>be a
>> list of list, not exactly data-frame, and the list grows
>incrementally,
>> which is inefficient, since I know the size of my data frame at the
>> outset. I am a new learner, not speaking half of R vocabulary, kindly
>> provide some hint please:)
>>
>> Best.
>>
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