[R] Reading single precision floats from binary file

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
> >> Now, the docs say that what you can read is "numeric", "double",
> >> "integer", "int", "logical", "complex", "character", and since "single" is
> >> not on the list, is it simply not the right tool for the job?
> >
> >R does not have a "single" mode for vectors,
>
> I know.
>
> >and that is what it says you can specify as `what'.
>
> Ah, I see. I read it as "what kind of data you will read from file (or
> connection)". Hm, I wonder if something along the lines of "the mode of
> the resulting R vector" would be clearer?

It says:

    what: Either an object whose mode will give the mode of the vector
          to be read, or a character vector of length one describing
          the mode: one of `"numeric", "double", "integer", "int",
          "logical", "complex", "character"'.

so `of the vector to be read' is in there already.


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