Are you really trying to read in binary? You are asking for characters which would be a null terminated string. If you are trying to read in binary zeroes, this will not work. What you need to do is to use 'raw'. Actually you should create a R script to test out the various conditions you want. If you use 'raw', this will read in the actual bytes in the file. You can check to see if the length of the vector is what you requested. If it is not, then you have reached an end of file. It is easy enough to try out the various options to see what happens. So if you are trying to read binary, then use 'raw'. If you are reading null terminated strings, then 'character' will work. If your file consists of binary integers, then use 'integer' and make sure you know if the 'endian' of the data. There are lots of other cases/conditions depending on what you are trying to do.
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:40 PM, rn00b <forzat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am using readBin to continuously read characters from the binary file. I'm > trying to figure out how many characters are in the file. What I would like > to do is something like > (while! EOF) > { > charRead <-.Internal(readBin(con,"character",1L,NA,TRUE,swap)) > i++ > } > > I'm not clear on how to determine the EOF condition in this case. > -- > View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/End-of-File-for-binary-files-tp1288509p1288525.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.