Thank you David for taking the time to respond to my question. Perhaps I
should clarify: the man page says "a 'dump' file can be 'source'd"; have
I taken the documentation too literally in this case?
David Winsemius wrote:
On Jul 21, 2009, at 7:19 PM, Benjamin Tyner wrote:
Is there a way to do this? I tried
x <- writeBin(pi, raw())
dump("x","x.R")
source("x.R")
but is seems x.R is not source()-able, as it contains an unexpected
symbol.
Yes, "2d".I get:
> source("/Users/davidwinsemius/x.R")
Error in source("/Users/davidwinsemius/x.R") :
/Users/davidwinsemius/x.R:2:8: unexpected symbol
1: x <-
2: c(18, 2d
^
So there was an good faith effort to source the file but the
interpreter was not put on notice that it would be getting
hexadecimal. The file contains:
x <-
c(18, 2d, 44, 54, fb, 21, 09, 40)
and when you try to execute that from the command line you get:
> x <-
+ c(18, 2d, 44, 54, fb, 21, 09, 40)
Error: syntax error
(R variable names cannot start with 2 and R wouldn't assume these are
hexadecimal numbers.)
David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT
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