[Rd] Future plans for raw data type?

[dhinds@sonic.net]

I've been working with raw vectors quite a bit and was wondering if
the R team might comment on where they see raw vector support going in
the long run.  Is the intent that 'raw' will eventually become a first
class data type on the same level as 'integer'?  Or should 'raw' have 
more limited support, by design?

For example, with very minor changes to subassign.c to implement some
automatic coercions, raw vectors can become arguments to ifelse() and
can be members of data frames.  Would this be desirable?

-- David Hinds