FYI, in R v2.5.0 alpha, readBin() can be used to read beyond end of raw vector:
> bfr <- as.raw(1:10) > readBin(con=bfr, what="raw", n=20) [1] 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0a > readBin(con=bfr, what="integer", n=20) [1] 67305985 134678021 > readBin(con=bfr, what="integer", size=4, n=20) [1] 67305985 134678021 > readBin(con=bfr, what="integer", size=2, n=20) [1] 513 1027 1541 2055 2569 29537 29541 0 9 16384 [11] 9376 453 -18208 505 -18328 505 9 0 0 0 > readBin(con=bfr, what="integer", size=1, n=20) [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 97 115 101 115 0 0 9 0 0 [20] 64 > sessionInfo() R version 2.5.0 alpha (2007-04-04 r41043) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MON ETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets" "methods" [7] "base" /Henrik ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
