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<li><p>In this package, “factor” and “AsIs” class vectors are coerced to character and handled as in (2), above.</p></li>
<li><p>Treat bits (raw) variables as base64-encoded big-endian bit sequences.</p></li>
<li><p>Handle dates, times, and datetimes as in (4), below. In this package, time-series classes (“ts” and “zoo”) and “difftime” class objects are coerced to numeric.</p></li>
<li><p>Format complex numbers as <code>A,iB</code>, where <code>A</code> is the real component and and <c