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
>
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