viewRaw {hexView}

View the Raw Binary Content of a File

Description

Displays the raw bytes of a file like a hex editor, showing offsets within the file, raw bytes in binary or hexadecimal form, and a human-readable representation of the bytes as either ASCII characters, integers, or real values.

Usage

viewRaw(..., page = FALSE)

Arguments

...

Arguments passed to the function readRaw.

page

If TRUE, the output is sent to the application set up to display text files as per getOption("pager").

Details

This function is only called for its side-effect, which is to display the file.

Author(s)

Paul Murrell

See Also

readRaw viewFormat

Examples

viewRaw(hexViewFile("rawTest.txt"), width=8)
viewRaw(hexViewFile("rawTest.txt"), machine="binary", width=4)

# UNICODE text
# rawTest.unicode created using Notepad on Windows
viewRaw(hexViewFile("rawTest.unicode"), width=8)

viewRaw(hexViewFile("rawTest.int"), human="int")
viewRaw(hexViewFile("rawTest.real"), human="real", width=8, endian="big")