Hello, 

I'm wondering if I can get some help with reading Fortran binary "unformatted" output files into R.

The Fortran output files were generated in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS using gfortran4.4, on a 32bit Intel Core 2 Duo 3.16 GHz machine, with little-endian and record marker lengths equal to 4. 

The machine I'm currently trying to read this Fortran output file is a Macbook Pro running Lion 10.7.3, on a 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4Gb of ram. I'm running R 2.14.1.

Based on whatever information I could gather from the web, I've been trying out the following code (the name of the Fortran output file is "header", located in the current working directory).

> to.read <- file("header", "rb")
> readBin(to.read, "integer", n=2, size = 4, endian = "little")

Unfortunately, these commands return empty.

Am I on the right track here? Is what I'm trying to accomplish here even technically possible?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Jooil

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