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viewRaw

View the Raw Binary Content of a 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.

Usage

viewRaw(..., page = FALSE)

Arguments

`...`	Arguments passed to the function `readRaw`.
`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

viewRaw(hexViewFile("rawTest.txt"), width=8)
viewRaw(hexViewFile("rawTest.txt"), machine="binary", width=4)

# UNICODE text
# rawTest.unicode created using Notepad on Windows
viewRaw(hexViewFile("rawTest.unicode"), width=8)

viewRaw(hexViewFile("rawTest.int"), human="int")
viewRaw(hexViewFile("rawTest.real"), human="real", width=8, endian="big")

hexView

Viewing Binary Files

v0.3-4

GPL-2

Authors

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

Initial release