Angel Lopez wrote: > Thanks for the advise. > I think I've found the solution, the problem was that the file had been > written from a C program using a structure containing floats and int, if > I rewrite the C code not using a structure but independent floats and > ints the data then is read smoothly into R. I still can't figure out why > a structure is different or how should I have read it into R but it is > probably more a C than an R question . > You're probably right there. A C structure may be silently aligned by the compiler so that value fields are not contiguous in memory. A binary write of such a structure cannot be assumed to have bytes in the same order described in the structure definition.
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