Dear Pascal, Dan and Macqueen,
Thankyou very much for your help. With pascal' code I was managed reading the file. 
Thanks,
Eliza

> From: kridox@ymail.com
> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 08:51:01 +0900
> Subject: Re: [R] open unknown file format in R
> To: eliza_botto@hotmail.com
> CC: r-help@r-project.org
> 
> Hello,
> 
> It is in binary format. I didn't use stations. But to read the gridded
> format, I used:
> 
> > readBin(fid, numeric(), n=1e8, size=4, signed=TRUE, endian='little')
> 
> where file is the connection created with file()
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Pascal
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 4:06 AM, eliza botto <eliza_botto@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear R-Family,
> > I have just downloaded a massive data file from internet (AphroJP_62STN_V1005.1900.gz). Apparently, the file is compressed with .gz. When I uncompressed
> > it, the file was saved in the name (AphroJP_62STN_V1005.1900) of unknown format. How can I open it in R?
> > thankyou very much indeed in advance,
> > Eliza
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Pascal Oettli
> Project Scientist
> JAMSTEC
> Yokohama, Japan
 		 	   		  
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