Message-ID: <477933F0.6080205@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 2007-12-31T18:24:48Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: readBin differences on Windows and Linux/mac
In-Reply-To: <264855a00712310958o42483fa6g27e0111ed6d01b16@mail.gmail.com>
Can you give a reproducible example, pelase?
Uwe Ligges
Sean Davis wrote:
> I have been trying to use the gunzip function in the R.utils package. It
> opens a connection to a gzfile, uses readBin to read from that connection,
> and then uses writeBin to write out the raw data to a new file. This works
> as expected under linux/mac, but under Windows, I get:
>
> Error in readBin(inn, what= raw(0), size = 1, n=BFR.SIZE) :
> negative length vectors are not allowed
>
> A simple traceback shows the error in readBin. I wouldn't be surprised if
> this is a programming issue not located in readBin, but I am confused about
> the difference in behaviors on Windows versus mac/linux. Any insight into
> what I can do to remedy the issue and have a cross-platform gunzip()?
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
>
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