oce (version 0.9-23)

byteToBinary: Format bytes as binary

Description

WARNING: The endian argument will soon be removed from this function; see oce-deprecated. This is because the actions for endian="little" made no sense in practical work. The default value for endian was changed to "big" on 2017 May 6.

Usage

byteToBinary(x, endian)

Arguments

x

an integer to be interpreted as a byte.

endian

character string indicating the endian-ness ("big" or "little"). This argument will be removed in the upcoming CRAN release.

Value

A character string representing the bit strings for the elements of x, in order of significance for the endian="big" case. (The nibbles, or 4-bit sequences, are interchanged in the now-deprecated "little" case.) See “Examples” for how this relates to the output from rawToBits.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
library(oce)
## Note comparison with rawToBits():
a <- as.raw(0x0a)
byteToBinary(a, "big") # "00001010"
rev(rawToBits(a))      # 00 00 00 00 01 00 01 00
# }