viewRaw: View the Raw Binary Content of a File
In pmur002/hexview: Viewing Binary Files

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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.

1	viewRaw(..., page = FALSE)

`...`	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")`.

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

Paul Murrell

readRaw viewFormat

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")