The following approach
sobject <- charToRaw(serialize(object,NULL))
len <- length(sobject)
writeBin(sobject, outcon)
would appear to work. As from 2.3.0 you will then be able to do
unserialize(readBin(incon, "raw", n=len))
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> I think you should be
I think you should be using a raw type to hold such data in R. It is not
intentional that readChar handles embedded nuls (and in fact it might not
in an MBCS).
As ?serialize says
For 'serialize', 'NULL' unless 'connection=NULL', when the result
is stored in the first element of a c
