On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > On Tuesday 14 November 2006 12:28 pm, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> This approach won't work in very many cases (but then nor will write.csv). >> >> The safest way I know is to use serialize() and unserialize(). Next to >> that, deparse(control="all") and parse(text=) are quite good and give a >> human-readable character representation. >> >> If fidelity is not the main issue, as.character and toString spring to >> mind. unlist is recursive, and is not going to come close to being >> faithful for other than very simple lists. And what if ',' is a character >> in one of the list elements? > > Yes, but then one can replace ',' with something rarely used like \007. > I picked ',' because write.csv/read.csv worked before.
But it quotes strings .... > You are right, for storage serialize/unserialize seem best, however for > manipulation one would usually prefer a well-defined format. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
