[R] Java parser for R data file?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, David Coppit wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Has anyone written a parser in Java for either the ASCII or binary format
> produced by save()? I need to parse a single large 2D array that is
> structured like this:
>
> list(
>  "32609_1" = c(-9549.39231289146, -9574.07159324482, ... ),
>  "32610_2" = c(-6369.12526971635, -6403.99620977124, ... ),
>  "32618_2" = c(-2138.29095689061, -2057.9229403233, ... ),
>        ...
> )
>
> Or, given that I'm dealing with just a single array, would it be better to
> roll my own I/O using write.table or write.matrix from the MASS package?

It would be much easier.  The save() format is far more complex than you 
need.  However, I would use writeBin() to write a binary file and read 
that in in Java, avoiding the binary -> ASCII -> binary conversion.

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