Thanks for the report. BTW, this is not new in 2.5.0 alpha AFAICS. It needs a tiny change in the C function readRaw: fixed in SVN now.
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > FYI, in R v2.5.0 alpha, readBin() can be used to read beyond end of raw > vector: > >> bfr <- as.raw(1:10) >> readBin(con=bfr, what="raw", n=20) > [1] 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0a > >> readBin(con=bfr, what="integer", n=20) > [1] 67305985 134678021 > >> readBin(con=bfr, what="integer", size=4, n=20) > [1] 67305985 134678021 > >> readBin(con=bfr, what="integer", size=2, n=20) > [1] 513 1027 1541 2055 2569 29537 29541 0 9 16384 > [11] 9376 453 -18208 505 -18328 505 9 0 0 0 > >> readBin(con=bfr, what="integer", size=1, n=20) > [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 97 115 101 115 0 0 9 0 > 0 > [20] 64 > >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.5.0 alpha (2007-04-04 r41043) > i386-pc-mingw32 > > locale: > LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United > States.1252;LC_MON > ETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United > States.1252 > > > attached base packages: > [1] "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets" "methods" > [7] "base" > > /Henrik > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel