I hope this isn't a bone-headed question in either sense of what or how I am asking, but would it be in principle possible to adapt fread to read fixed record binary .bin files?
I guess this is more of a feature request, although it's a help request if someone's figured it out already. TAQ bin files would be a major usage case, for instance. These are 60 gig files that are usually 30-33 characters * 600M rows long. An example would be reading a fixed record length, so imagine something like bidsiz<-readBin(qin,what='integer',size=4,n=1,endian='little') ofrsiz<-readBin(qin,what='integer',size=4,n=1,endian='little') mode<-readBin(qin,what='integer',size=2,n=1,endian='little') ex<-readBin(qin, what='character',size=1,n=1,endian='little') - Alan
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