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.