This package provides other packages with access to the internal R serialization code. Access is provided at the C function level via the registered function facility
For convenience and testing purposes, two wrapper functions are also provided at the R level.
serializeToRaw(obj, version=2, xdr=TRUE)
unserializeFromRaw(obj)
An R object which is going to (un)serialized by the corresponding function.
An integer selection the R serialization format. Default is 2, and values 2 or 3 are currently supported.
A logical value selection (portable) XDR encoding which is the
default. Use FALSE for speed-up suitable for common little-endian
system at a loss of portability.
Dirk Eddelbuettel put together this package, based on earlier work by Ei-ji Nakama and Junji Nakano who also included the C code from R for serialization in their Rhpc package. R Core wrote the underlying C code for use in R itself.
The package is maintained by Dirk Eddelbuettel.
The C code in this package is taken from R source code, where it provided for use by R only in a way that renders it inaccessible to other packages.
This package aims to fill this gap by providing access to the same functionality, at the cost of making a copy.
To use the serialization and deserialization code provided here, a
client package simply adds LinkingTo: RApiSerialize in its
DESCRIPTION file and includes the header file
RApiSerializeAPI.h.
The R source code in src/main/serialize.c.
## calling the R wrapper
serializeToRaw(letters)
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