?readBin will do what you want. If the file is really a set of lines, you could use readLines() followed by strsplit().
See also the R Data Import/Export manual. On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Jiming Yu wrote: > Dear all, > I am trying to read characters byte by byte(in their ASCII codes) from a > file(already transferred from text file to a file of ASCII codes, by C > language). I am using scan() function. But it seems that this is impossible. > If I read data as 'character' type, data are read word by word, > separated by spaces(though in default setting, sep=""). e.g. if a file > contains "This is a book.", Then it reads "This", "is", "a", "book.", not > "T", "h", "i", "s", etc(as I wanted it to). > If I read data as 'integer' type from the file which contains all ASCII > codes of the original file, e.g. if a file contains "This is a book.", Then > it reads "T", " ", "i", " ", "a", " " , "b", which are initials of all words > and all spaces, not "T", "h", "i", "s", etc(as I wanted it to). > If anybody has a solution, please let me know. I'd really appreciate > your help. Thank you very much! -- 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 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
