[R] Passing bigint (8-byte) values from Postgres to R using RPostgreSQL

[psql2555]

Hi - 

I have a simple R script that inserts values into a Postgres table to
generate a record that autogenerates a bigint unique ID (basically, a
customized bigserial value). When I query the table to retrieve the bigint
value, the value returned is not the same as the value created in the
database (as evidenced by a direct query of the database table via pgAdmin). 

e.g. the value created should be an 8-byte integer (specifically
2007111600000100000). However, the value returned in R is different
(specifically 2007111600000100096). For every bigint value, the value
returned is the value generated by the database + 96. 

An example of the code to obtain the value from the database is as follows:
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PgSQLdrv <- dbDriver("PostgreSQL")
con <-
dbConnect(PgSQLdrv,host="localhost",dbname="MyDB",user="user",password="password",port=5432)
rs <- dbSendQuery(con,statement = paste('SELECT "UID" FROM "mytable"  LIMIT
1',sep='',collapse=''))
val <- fetch(rs,n = -1)
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How may I correct the error? Is this an endian issue with the Windows
driver?

Running:
    Postgres v8.3.5
    R v2.8.0 
    RPostgreSQL v0.1-2
    Windows XP SP2

Thanks -
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