| rawConversion {base} | R Documentation |
Conversion and manipulation of objects of type "raw".
charToRaw(x)
rawToChar(x, multiple = FALSE)
rawShift(x, n)
rawToBits(x)
intToBits(x)
packBits(x, type = c("raw", "integer"))
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. |
packBits accepts raw, integer or logical inputs, the last two
without any NAs.
Note that ‘bytes’ are not necessarily the same as characters, e.g. in UTF-8 domains.
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.
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)