Class "hexmode" consists of integer vectors with that class
attribute, used merely to ensure that they are printed in hex.
If width = NULL (the default), the output is padded with
leading zeroes to the smallest width needed for all the non-missing
elements.
as.hexmode can convert integers (of type "integer" or
"double") and character vectors whose elements contain only
0-9, a-f, A-F (or are NA) to class
"hexmode".
There is a ! method and methods for | and
&:
these recycle their arguments to the length of the longer and then
apply the operators bitwise to each element.