Thanks, Duncan!

I installed a hex viewer -- did not realize there was also one in R.

I found the documentation for the individual showNonASCII and
showNonASCIIFile functions, but I could not find the usual package PDF. The
tools package does not seem to be listed on cran in the alphabetical list
of packages, though I did find an undated HTML version. Am I looking in the
wrong place?

Warmest regards, andrewH



On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:53 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan@gmail.com>wrote:

> On 14-01-28 11:43 PM, andrewH wrote:> Hi Folks!
>
> > I have been writing a small set of utilities for dealing with files that
> are
> > hard to open correctly for one reason or another, especially because they
> > are too big for memory, non-rectangular, or contain odd characters or
> > unexpected codings, or all of these things together. Today it suddenly
> hit
> > me that this has probably been done, done better, and upgraded to package
> > form a dozen times already. There were pointers to a couple functions
> useful
> > in this regard in the Core Import/Export document.  But my effort to
> come up
> > with search terms that were productive of such packages was unsuccessful.
> >
> > I would be grateful if someone would point me toward such a package or
> > packages if they exist.
> >
>
> The hexView package is useful for figuring out what's there after you have
> trouble reading something, or figuring out how to read an unknown file type.
>
> The showNonASCII and showNonASCIIFile functions in the tools package are
> also helpful.
>
> I don't know of other examples.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>


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