On Fri, 9 Jan 2015, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 09/01/2015 5:32 PM, Erin Hodgess wrote:
Hello again.
Here is another question that I am puzzled about: I had the
(incorrect) impression that if I had Rtools on a Windows machine that I
could use any tar.gz package. However, that is not true.
I don't know why the R developers made that comment, and R-devel is probably a
better place to follow up, but the usual problem is that Windows treats text
files differently than binary files, so seeking n text files is a headache.
Binary files ought to be okay, but that is a theoretical
I/we've been utilizing both read and write seek():s on *binary*
connections across platforms and file systems, including Windows (at
least NTFS, but probably also FAT/FAT32 back in the days) in the Aroma
Framework (e.g. affxparser, R.huge) for ~8 years and counting. There
should be thousands and
Thanks, everyone. This is very good news from Henrik because I am
interested only in binary connections. It sounds like a function that
uses seek() is very likely to work well in Windows, so I won't bother to
warn people. I should do a little testing just to see that it's working,
though.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Mike Miller mbmille...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, everyone. This is very good news from Henrik because I am
interested only in binary connections. It sounds like a function that uses
seek() is very likely to work well in Windows, so I won't bother to warn
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