read_bin {xfun}

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Read all records of a binary file as a raw vector by default

Description

This is a wrapper function of readBin() with default arguments what = "raw" and ⁠n = ⁠file.size(file), which means it will read the full content of a binary file as a raw vector by default.

Usage

read_bin(file, what = "raw", n = file.info(file)$size, ...)

Arguments

file, what, n, ...

Arguments to be passed to readBin().

Value

A vector returned from readBin().

Examples

Run examples

f = tempfile()
cat("abc", file = f)
xfun::read_bin(f)
unlink(f)

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