[Rd] readBin() can read beyond end of raw vector

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Thanks for the report. BTW, this is not new in 2.5.0 alpha AFAICS.

It needs a tiny change in the C function readRaw: fixed in SVN now.

On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:

> FYI, in R v2.5.0 alpha, readBin() can be used to read beyond end of raw vector:
>
>> bfr <- as.raw(1:10)
>> readBin(con=bfr, what="raw", n=20)
> [1] 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0a
>
>> readBin(con=bfr, what="integer", n=20)
> [1]  67305985 134678021
>
>> readBin(con=bfr, what="integer", size=4, n=20)
> [1]  67305985 134678021
>
>> readBin(con=bfr, what="integer", size=2, n=20)
> [1]    513   1027   1541   2055   2569  29537  29541      0      9  16384
> [11]   9376    453 -18208    505 -18328    505      9      0      0      0
>
>> readBin(con=bfr, what="integer", size=1, n=20)
> [1]   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10  97 115 101 115   0   0   9   0   0
> [20]  64
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.5.0 alpha (2007-04-04 r41043)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MON
> ETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"  "methods"
> [7] "base"
>
> /Henrik
>
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