Hello I'm encountering some difficulty correctly reading binary files. The binary files store data as "short" rather than "double" , "int", or any of the other modes of the vector being read.
The data represents a regular grid of size 419 rows by 264 columns, to make it more interesting, the data are daily records, for a total of 37 years. The file size is therefore 419(rows) * 264(columns) * 365(days) * 37(years) long. The product of these dimensions is 1493869080 records. I'm using the following code to read these into R (windows 2.8.1 ) con <- file(file.choose(), open="rb") Year66 <- readBin(con, integer, signed=TRUE, n = 40374840) close(con) length(Year66) returns 2046396 I'm betting that I'm defining the "what" incorrectly, but after numerous attempts with different choices I'm wondering if readBin can handle "short" values? Any help is greatly appreciated. Steve Steve Friedman Ph. D. Spatial Statistical Analyst Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Park 950 N Krome Ave (3rd Floor) Homestead, Florida 33034 steve_fried...@nps.gov Office (305) 224 - 4282 Fax (305) 224 - 4147 ______________________________________________ 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.
