Duncan,
I couldn't find clear details about the way fortran writes the binaries. I
was hoping someone here has done it before. But the hexView package seems
like a great idea i'll give it a shot.

Thanks a bunch

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca>wrote:

> On 17/12/2009 3:48 PM, kapo coulibaly wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to read fortran binaries with R? I tried unsucessfully and
>> my
>> understanding is that fortran write binaries with leading and trailing
>> bytes. I get numbers but not the right ones.
>> Thanks
>>
>> ps: the binary I'm interested in reading is a MODFLOW output with a mix of
>> character, double and integers.
>>
>
> One other thing:  the hexView package does a very nice job of displaying
> the file, so you can work out what the structure is if the documentation is
> unclear (or nonexistent).
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>

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