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Type: Package
Title: R API Serialization
Version: 0.1.4
Date: 2024-09-28
Description: Access to the internal R serialization code is provided for use by other packages at the C function level by using the registration of native function mechanism. Client packages simply include a single header file RApiSerializeAPI.h provided by this package. This packages builds on the Rhpc package by Ei-ji Nakama and Junji Nakano which also includes a (partial) copy of the file src/main/serialize.c from R itself. The R Core group is the original author of the serialization code made available by this package.
URL: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rapiserialize, https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rapiserialize.html
BugReports: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rapiserialize/issues
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2024-09-28 16:23:20 UTC; edd
Author: Dirk Eddelbuettel ORCID iD [aut, cre], Ei-ji Nakama [aut] (Code in package Rhpc), Junji Nakano [aut] (Code in package Rhpc), R Core [aut] (Code in R file src/main/serialize.c)
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2024-09-28 16:50:02 UTC

R API for Serialization

Description

This package provides other packages with access to the internal R serialization code. Access is provided at the C function level via the registered function facility

For convenience and testing purposes, two wrapper functions are also provided at the R level.

Usage

  serializeToRaw(obj, version=2, xdr=TRUE)
  unserializeFromRaw(obj)

Arguments

obj

An R object which is going to (un)serialized by the corresponding function.

version

An integer selection the R serialization format. Default is 2, and values 2 or 3 are currently supported.

xdr

A logical value selection (portable) XDR encoding which is the default. Use FALSE for speed-up suitable for common little-endian system at a loss of portability.

Details

The C code in this package is taken from R source code, where it provided for use by R only in a way that renders it inaccessible to other packages.

This package aims to fill this gap by providing access to the same functionality, at the cost of making a copy.

To use the serialization and deserialization code provided here, a client package simply adds LinkingTo: RApiSerialize in its DESCRIPTION file and includes the header file RApiSerializeAPI.h.

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel put together this package, based on earlier work by Ei-ji Nakama and Junji Nakano who also included the C code from R for serialization in their Rhpc package. R Core wrote the underlying C code for use in R itself.

The package is maintained by Dirk Eddelbuettel.

See Also

The R source code in src/main/serialize.c.

Examples

  ## calling the R wrapper 
  serializeToRaw(letters)

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