hip_rt {hipread}

Create a record type information object

Description

Create a record type information object for hipread to use when reading hierarchical files. A width of 0 indicates that the file is rectangular (eg a standard fixed width file).

Usage

hip_rt(start, width, warn_on_missing = TRUE)

Arguments

start

Start position of the record type variable

width

The width of the record type variable

warn_on_missing

Whether to warn when encountering a record type that is not specified

Value

A list, really only intended to be used internally by hipread