octmode {base}R Documentation

Display Numbers in Octal

Description

Convert or print integers in octal format, with as many digits as are needed to display the largest, using leading zeroes as necessary.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'octmode':
as.character(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'octmode':
format(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'octmode':
print(x, ...)

Arguments

x An object inheriting from class "octmode".
... further arguments passed to or from other methods.

Details

Class "octmode" consists of integer vectors with that class attribute, used merely to ensure that they are printed in octal notation, specifically for Unix-like file permissions such as 755. Subsetting ([) works too.

See Also

These are auxiliary functions for file.info.

hexmode

Examples

(on <- structure(c(16,32, 127:129),  class = "octmode")) #-> print.*()
##-> "020" "040" "177" "200" "201"
unclass(on[3:4]) # subsetting

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