Re: [R] help on readBin in R

2017-04-17 Thread Barry Rowlingson
There's very little justification for attaching binary files to a mailing list these days - share it on Dropbox, or Box, or Hubic, or whatever MS or Google's cloud storage is, or simply tell us where it was obtained from originally. And to the original poster - some more context is very useful -

Re: [R] help on readBin in R

2017-04-16 Thread Jeff Newmiller
That may or may not work, since text file newlines get altered in them. May have more luck with a "png" extension? -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On April 16, 2017 7:33:06 PM PDT, jim holtman wrote: >If the file is not too large, just change the extension

Re: [R] help on readBin in R

2017-04-16 Thread jim holtman
If the file is not too large, just change the extension to '.txt' and attach it. Also include the code that you are using to read it in and a definition of the what the data is; e.g., first two byte are temperature, next four bytes are a station ID, Here is an example of reading in a binary

Re: [R] help on readBin in R

2017-04-16 Thread Jeff Newmiller
The mailing list has tight restrictions on attachments, so your attachment was not let through. Read the Posting Guide, and note that sometimes success requires some extended understanding of how your mail software works, and we probably don't know the details either. You might have success

[R] help on readBin in R

2017-04-16 Thread M.M saifuddin
I need to view the attached binary file. but can not read it, instead am getting very weird( i think garbage) numbers. The values are Temperature data so it should be somewhat in between 250 to 500. Can any altruist view it and give me the R code to view it. I am attaching the file. Please