[Rprotobuf-yada] bytes

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Sat Sep 11 00:54:46 CEST 2010


Hi Koert,

Thanks for posting on-list! 

On 10 September 2010 at 15:19, eckuipers-web at yahoo.com wrote:
| Dirk, Romain,
| Why did you decide to represent the bytes field type by an R character vector? 
| Why not raw?
| I have a message with a bytes field, and within R i cannot get to the bytes 
| since the character representation cuts it off at the first null character it 
| runs into, it seems. So charToRaw doesnt help me here either. 
| 
| Any suggestions?

Fair question. 

We just happened to have uploaded 0.2.0 which should be on CRAN tomorrow --
did you check against the ancient version on CRAN or did you check against
SVN?

Dirk

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