[R] tried half-precision but "size 2 is unknown on this machine"

[Jeff Newmiller]

Your message is missing either a reproducible example or an indication of your R environment (such as the output of sessionInfo()).

Yes, the machine architecture can prevent certain types of operations. This is however a poor venue for discussing such issues.

I suggest that you investigate the hexbin package for binary data handling, and if you still have issues then post again, following the posting guide recommendations.
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On January 3, 2015 9:31:02 PM PST, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote:
>It's an IEEE standard format:
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-precision_floating-point_format#IEEE_754_half-precision_binary_floating-point_format:_binary16
>
>This is what I see:
>
>> writeBin(vec , con, size=2 )
>Error in writeBin(vec, con, size = 2) : size 2 is unknown on this
>machine
>
>I'm not sure what the machine has to do with it.  It's really up to the
>
>software, isn't it?
>
>Is there a way to get R to read/write half-precision numbers
>(binary16)?
>
>It isn't a big deal for me because unsigned 16-bit integers are working
>
>well enough, but I'd like to have an answer for people who ask why I
>make 
>them divide by 1000 all the time.  ;-)
>
>Mike
>
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