rawConversion {base}R Documentation

Convert to or from Raw Vectors

Description

Conversion and manipulation of objects of type "raw".

Usage

charToRaw(x)
rawToChar(x, multiple = FALSE)

rawShift(x, n)

rawToBits(x)
intToBits(x)
packBits(x, type = c("raw", "integer"))

Arguments

x object to be converted or shifted.
multiple logical: should the conversion be to a single character string or multiple individual characters?
n the number of bits to shift. Positive numbers shift right and negative numbers shift left: allowed values are -8 ... 8.
type the result type.

Details

packBits accepts raw, integer or logical inputs, the last two without any NAs.

Value

charToRaw converts a length-one character string to raw bytes.
rawToChar converts raw bytes either to a single character string or a character vector of single bytes. (Note that a single character string could contain embedded nuls.)
rawToBits returns a raw vector of 8 times the length of a raw vector with entries 0 or 1. intToBits returns a raw vector of 32 times the length of an integer vector with entries 0 or 1. In both cases the unpacking is least-significant bit first.
packbits packs its input (using only the lowest bit for raw or integer vectors) least-significant bit first to a raw or integer vector.

Examples

x <- "A test string"
(y <- charToRaw(x))
is.vector(y) # TRUE

rawToChar(y)
rawToChar(y, multiple = TRUE)
(xx <- c(y, as.raw(0), charToRaw("more")))
rawToChar(xx)
xxx <- xx
xxx[length(y)+1] <- charToRaw("&")
xxx
rawToChar(xxx)

rawShift(y, 1)
rawShift(y, -2)

rawToBits(y)

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