In radio astronomy, 1/2/4-bit data is commonplace, and still in use at many telescopes around the world. In such cases, 8, 4, or 2 integers are packed into a single 8-bit integer. In order to read data like this back in for further analysis, one needs to unpack it. One will therefore read in the data as 8-bit integers, and then apply a sequence of bit operations for unpacking. This package exports two functions: unpack and pack, for unpacking, or repacking, 1/2/4-bit data, respectively.
Install it by typing and running:
] add PackedIntegersin the Julia REPL.