On Jan 29, 2014, at 7:27 PM, Andrew Hoerner wrote: > Thanks, Duncan! > > I installed a hex viewer -- did not realize there was also one in R. > > I found the documentation for the individual showNonASCII and > showNonASCIIFile functions, but I could not find the usual package PDF. The > tools package does not seem to be listed on cran in the alphabetical list > of packages, though I did find an undated HTML version. Am I looking in the > wrong place? > > Warmest regards, andrewH
It's part of the ordinary base installation . This is its DESCRIPTION file. Package: tools Version: 3.0.2 Priority: base Title: Tools for Package Development Author: R Core Team Maintainer: R Core Team <r-c...@r-project.org> Description: Tools for package development, administration and documentation License: Part of R 3.0.2 Built: R 3.0.2; x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0; 2013-09-25 11:51:01 UTC; unix Just as you will not find `utils` or `stats`. They do get their own directory under your library of system packages. -- David. > > > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:53 AM, Duncan Murdoch > <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On 14-01-28 11:43 PM, andrewH wrote:> Hi Folks! >> >>> I have been writing a small set of utilities for dealing with files that >> are >>> hard to open correctly for one reason or another, especially because they >>> are too big for memory, non-rectangular, or contain odd characters or >>> unexpected codings, or all of these things together. Today it suddenly >> hit >>> me that this has probably been done, done better, and upgraded to package >>> form a dozen times already. There were pointers to a couple functions >> useful >>> in this regard in the Core Import/Export document. But my effort to >> come up >>> with search terms that were productive of such packages was unsuccessful. >>> >>> I would be grateful if someone would point me toward such a package or >>> packages if they exist. >>> >> >> The hexView package is useful for figuring out what's there after you have >> trouble reading something, or figuring out how to read an unknown file type. >> >> The showNonASCII and showNonASCIIFile functions in the tools package are >> also helpful. >> >> I don't know of other examples. >> >> Duncan Murdoch >> >> > > > -- > J. Andrew Hoerner > Director, Sustainable Economics Program > Redefining Progress > (510) 507-4820 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ 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.
