R.utils (version 2.2.0)

Java$readUTF: Reads a Java (UTF-8) formatted string from a connection

Description

Reads a Java (UTF-8) formatted string from a connection.

Usage

## Static method (use this):
## Java$readUTF(con, as.character=TRUE, ...)

## Don't use the below: ## S3 method for class 'Java': readUTF(static, con, as.character=TRUE, ...)

Arguments

con
Binary connection to be read from.
as.character
If TRUE, the read string converted, i.e. translated, into an Rcharacter string before returned, otherwise an integer vector representation of the Unicode string is returned.
...
Not used.

Value

Details

Currently only 8-bit UTF-8 byte sequences are supported, i.e. plain ASCII sequences, i.e. characters that take up more than one byte are read incorrectly without any warnings.

See Also

readBin(). For more information see Java.