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Yes, the machine architecture can prevent certain types of operations. This is however a poor venue for discussing such issues. I suggest that you investigate the hexbin package for binary data handling, and if you still have issues then post again, following the posting guide recommendations. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On January 3, 2015 9:31:02 PM PST, Mike Miller <mbmille...@gmail.com> wrote: >It's an IEEE standard format: > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-precision_floating-point_format#IEEE_754_half-precision_binary_floating-point_format:_binary16 > >This is what I see: > >> writeBin(vec , con, size=2 ) >Error in writeBin(vec, con, size = 2) : size 2 is unknown on this >machine > >I'm not sure what the machine has to do with it. It's really up to the > >software, isn't it? > >Is there a way to get R to read/write half-precision numbers >(binary16)? > >It isn't a big deal for me because unsigned 16-bit integers are working > >well enough, but I'd like to have an answer for people who ask why I >make >them divide by 1000 all the time. ;-) > >Mike > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.