On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> Take a look at the information on serialization in 'R Internals'. AFAICS
> this is no different from what can happen when loading a saved workspace.
>
>
I'll give that a look, thanks.


>
> On 06/12/2011 05:29, Tyler Pirtle wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> While debugging a network server I'm developing I noticed something
>> unusual
>> - call to unserialize() resulted in
>> an error about loading a namespace.
>>
>> I was a bit taken back by this - why should unserializing an object cause
>> a
>> namespace lookup?
>> Are there any other side-effects of unserialize() that I should be
>> cautious
>> about? I've been
>> digging through the R_Unserialize() call, I haven't found the
>> loadNamespace
>> bit yet but I
>> assume its in there somewhere.
>>
>> Is there anyway to guard against R eagerly evaluating serialized data
>> (serialize()) being unserialized (unserialize()) ?
>>
>
> Don't unserialize 'eagerly'.  Hint: that's what lazy-loading does.
>
>

I don't follow you. Could you elaborate?


Thanks,


T



>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Tyler
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