See ?readBin The format of a Fortran unformatted file is compiler- and OS-dependent, but if you know what it is, readBin() can read it.
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Alexy Khrabrov wrote: > Greetings -- I'd like to avoid converting a Fortran array of floats > into ASCII and back reading it in R. Furthermore it's much faster to > dump large arrays in binary, as they take up much less space with full > precision -- many decimal points take up many bytes in ASCII versus > four or eight per float in raw. Is there a way to read such a Fortran > unformatted file back into R? > > Cheers, > Alexy > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- 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-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.