How to correctly use readWave in Rstudio

Question

Im getting this error while executing this line in RStudio, I have tuneR lib installed.

birds <- readWave("birds.wav")

Error in readBin(con, int, n = 4, size = 1, endian = "little", signed = FALSE) %*% : non-conformable arguments In addition: Warning message: In readChar(con, 4, useBytes = TRUE) : truncating string with embedded nuls

Tried to look for examples and can´t find any that helps me.

Answer 1

I just had a very similar error message, but without warning:

FILENAME = "FILENAME.wav"
Soundfile = readWave(FILENAME)

"Error in readBin(con, int, n = 4, size = 1, endian = "little", signed = FALSE) %*% : non-conformable arguments"

In my case, the problem was that the file size is 0 octets:

file.info(FILENAME)$size
[1] 0

So I added this before reading so I won't have an error again because of empty files:

if(file.info(FILENAME)$size !=0){
          Soundfile = readWave(FILENAME)
        }else{
          warning(paste0(FILENAME, " has size of 0 octets"))
        }