From rdpeng at gmail.com  Tue Sep  5 21:41:15 2006
From: rdpeng at gmail.com (Roger D. Peng)
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:41:15 -0400
Subject: [Rd] serialize changes for 2.4.0
Message-ID: <44FDD2DB.9080309@gmail.com>

I noticed today that in R 2.3.1, I get

 > serialize(list(1,2,3), NULL, ascii = TRUE)
[1] "A\n2\n131841\n131840\n19\n3\n14\n1\n1\n14\n1\n2\n14\n1\n3\n"
 >

but in R 2.4.0 alpha I get

 > serialize(list(1,2,3), NULL, ascii = TRUE)
  [1] 41 0a 32 0a 31 33 32 30 39 36 0a 31 33 31 38 34 30 0a 31 39 0a 33 0a 31 34
[26] 0a 31 0a 31 0a 31 34 0a 31 0a 32 0a 31 34 0a 31 0a 33 0a
 >

It seems I need to use 'rawToChar()' to get the character vector that I used to 
get in R 2.3.1.

Is this intentional?  I couldn't find any mention of this change in the NEWS 
file; from the docs, it seems to me that either return value could be correct.

 > version
                _
platform       x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
arch           x86_64
os             linux-gnu
system         x86_64, linux-gnu
status         alpha
major          2
minor          4.0
year           2006
month          09
day            05
svn rev        39121
language       R
version.string R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-05 r39121)
 >

-roger
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[Rd] serialize changes for 2.4.0
Roger D. Peng