R - Reading binary files

I had to get some data out of files written by Fortran. The format was a large array of doubles.

• numeric() for doubles
• integer() for integers

readBin takes the input file and reads the binary data. If you want to read to the end of the file, don't give a dimension as 3rd parameter.

#### Reading value field from file
z <- file("/BoundValueRemain.bin", "rb")
y <- readBin (z, numeric(), 51*50*50*15*13)
close(z)
dim(y) <- c(51, 50, 50, 15, 13)