rawConnection

R Base 3.6.2

Input and output raw connections.

Syntax

rawConnection(object, open = "r")<p></p><p>rawConnectionValue(con)</p>

Arguments

Parameter	Description
`object`	character or raw vector. A description of the connection. For an input this is an R raw vector object, and for an output connection the name for the connection.
`open`	character. Any of the standard connection open modes.
`con`	An output raw connection.

Return Value

For rawConnection, a connection object of class "rawConnection" which inherits from class "connection". For rawConnectionValue, a raw vector.

Details

An input raw connection is opened and the raw vector is copied at the time the connection object is created, and close destroys the copy. An output raw connection is opened and creates an R raw vector internally. The raw vector can be retrieved via rawConnectionValue. If a connection is open for both input and output the initial raw vector supplied is copied when the connections is open

Examples

Example

# NOT RUN {
zz <- rawConnection(raw(0), "r+") # start with empty raw vector
writeBin(LETTERS, zz)
seek(zz, 0)
readLines(zz) # raw vector has embedded nuls
seek(zz, 0)
writeBin(letters[1:3], zz)
rawConnectionValue(zz)
close(zz)
# }