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> [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of tetonedge
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> Subject: [R] unsigned 4 byte number
>
>
> Does anybody know how to read in a unsigned 4 byte number
> from a binary file?
> According to the help for readBin, the signed argument only applies to
> size=1 or 2. But if you declare any size larger it assumes it
> is signed?
R cannot properly represent unsigned 4 byte C ints with its
type "integer" (which is a 4 byte signed C int). It can store
them as doubles with the desired values.
You can use readBin to read them as signed 4 byte C ints, stored
in R "integers", with
i <- readBin(file, what="integer", size=4)
and then convert them to doubles with the following function
unsignedFourByteIntToDouble <- function(i) {
d <- as.numeric(i)
d[d<0] <- d[d<0] + 2^32
d
}
If you had S+ you could do this in one step using readBin's
output="double" argument. In S+'s readBin(), output=type
means to override the default mapping of C types to S+ types.
Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
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