On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 03:14 -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 11-04-18 9:51 PM, Matt Shotwell wrote:
> > Does anyone know if there is a simple way to print raw vectors, such
> > that ASCII characters are printed for bytes in the ASCII range, and
> > their hex representation otherwise? rawToChar doesn't work when we have
> > something like c(0x00, 0x00, 0x44, 0x00).
> 
> Do you really need hex?  rawToChar(x, multiple=TRUE) comes close, but 
> displays using octal or symbolic escapes, e.g.

No, but I've almost learned to count efficiently in hex. :)

>    [1] ""     "\001" "\002" "\003" "\004" "\005" "\006" "\a"   "\b" 
> "\t"   "\n"
>   [12] "\v"   "\f"   "\r"   "\016" "\017" "\020" "\021" "\022" "\023" 
> "\024" "\025"
>   [23] "\026" "\027" "\030" "\031" "\032" "\033" "\034" "\035" "\036" 
> "\037" " "
>   [34] "!"    "\""   "#"    "$"    "%"    "&"    "'"    "("    ")" 
> "*"    "+"
> 
> If you really do want hex, then you'll need something like
> 
> ifelse( x < 32 | x >= 127, as.character(x), rawToChar(x, multiple=TRUE))

That does it. Thanks. -Matt

> Duncan Murdoch

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