[R] dump() an object of type raw ?

[Benjamin Tyner]

Thank you David for taking the time to respond to my question. Perhaps I 
should clarify: the man page says "a 'dump' file can be 'source'd"; have 
I taken the documentation too literally in this case?

David Winsemius wrote:
>
> On Jul 21, 2009, at 7:19 PM, Benjamin Tyner wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to do this? I tried
>>
>>  x <- writeBin(pi, raw())
>>  dump("x","x.R")
>>  source("x.R")
>>
>> but is seems x.R is not source()-able, as it contains an unexpected 
>> symbol.
>>
>
> Yes, "2d".I get:
> > source("/Users/davidwinsemius/x.R")
> Error in source("/Users/davidwinsemius/x.R") :
>   /Users/davidwinsemius/x.R:2:8: unexpected symbol
> 1: x <-
> 2: c(18, 2d
>           ^
>
> So there was an good faith effort to source the file but the 
> interpreter was not put on notice that it would be getting 
> hexadecimal. The file contains:
>
> x <-
> c(18, 2d, 44, 54, fb, 21, 09, 40)
>
> and when you try to execute that from the command line you get:
>
> > x <-
> + c(18, 2d, 44, 54, fb, 21, 09, 40)
> Error: syntax error
>
> (R variable names cannot start with 2 and R wouldn't assume these are 
> hexadecimal numbers.)
>
>
> David Winsemius, MD
> Heritage Laboratories
> West Hartford, CT
>