hexView: viewFormat – R documentation

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viewFormat

View a Binary File

Description

Displays the raw bytes of a file like a hex editor, showing offsets within the file, raw bytes in binary or hexadecimal form, and a human-readable representation of the bytes as either ASCII characters, integers, or real values. The file is broken up into blocks according to a supplied file format specification.

Usage

viewFormat(..., page = FALSE)

Arguments

`...`	Arguments passed to the function `readFormat`, most importantly, a `"memFormat"` describing the file format.
`page`	If `TRUE`, the output is sent to the application set up to display text files as per `getOption("pager")`.

Details

This function is only called for its side-effect, which is to display the file.

Author(s)

Paul Murrell

Examples

viewFormat(hexViewFile("rawTest.int"),
           memFormat(int1=integer4, int2=integer4))
viewFormat(hexViewFile("rawTest.int"),
           memFormat(integers=vectorBlock(integer4, 20)))

hexView

Viewing Binary Files

v0.3-4

GPL-2

Authors

Paul Murrell [aut, cre], Chao Bian [ctb]

Initial release