readEViews {hexView} | R Documentation |
Read an Eviews File
Description
This function reads a file in Eviews format (Eviews is an econometrics package).
Usage
readEViews(filename, time.stamp=TRUE, as.data.frame = TRUE)
Arguments
filename |
The name of the file. |
time.stamp |
A logical indicating whether to include a
|
as.data.frame |
If |
Details
This function is just a demonstration of how the functions in this package can be used to read a complex binary format. It has been tested on a few sample files (and works), but there is no guarantee it will work for all Eviews files (this is not helped by the fact that it is based on reverse-engineering information about the Eviews format, NOT an official description of the format.
Value
Either a data frame or a list of variables.
Author(s)
Paul Murrell
References
http://www.eviews.com/ and http://www.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/eviews_format/
Examples
readEViews(hexViewFile("data4-1.wf1"))