[R] binary to R object

[Prof Brian Ripley]

What type actually is 'binary' here?  We cannot tell, as writeBin will 
handle many types.

If 'binary' means a raw vector, two ways:

1) Use load() on a raw connection (see ?rawConnection).

2) Make use of the information in ?readRDS.  You can read the header 
from save() format by skipping the first 5 bytes, then call 
unserialize() on the rest of the raw vector.  (If the save was 
compressed, you need to handle decompression too: see ?memCompress.)

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On 30/07/2014 20:56, Ramiro Barrantes wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have stored R objects as hexadecimals in a mysql database, I then usually transform them to binary and then save it into a file.  E.g.
>
>    hex <- getBlob   #gets blob from database as hexadecimal
>    binary <- transformToBinary(hex)  #moves from hex to binary
>
> I would usually save them into a file as follows:
>
>    writeBin(object=binary,con="fileName.txt")
>
> Then eventually if I want to use it in R I just load it:
>
>    load("fileName.txt")
>
> However, how can I go from the binary directly into an Robject without writing it to a file?
>
>    say:
>
>    myObject <- unknownFunction(binary)
>
> I hope this is enough detail.  Any help appreciated.
>
> In retrospect, I could have probably used serialize/unserialize and store a serialize string in mysql and unserialize when needed ( or write to a file if necessary), but I didn't know of those when I did this.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ramiro
>
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