How to handle binary strings in R?

Question

R is not able to cope with null-strings (\\0) in characters, does anyone know how to handle this? More concrete, I want to store complex R objects within a database using an

Answer 1

A completely different approach would be to simply store the output of capture.output(dput(model)) along with a descriptive name and then reconstitute it with <- or assign(). See comments below regarding the need for capture.output().

> dput(Mat1)
structure(list(Weight = c(7.6, 8.4, 8.6, 8.6, 1.4), Date = c("04/28/11", 
"04/29/11", "04/29/11", "04/29/11", "05/01/11"), Time = c("09:30 ", 
"03:11", "05:32", "09:53", "19:52")), .Names = c("Weight", "Date", 
"Time"), row.names = c(NA, -5L), class = "data.frame")
> y <- capture.output(dput(Mat1))
> y <- paste(y, collapse="", sep="")  # Needed because capture output breaks into multiple lines
> dget(textConnection(y))
  Weight     Date   Time
1    7.6 04/28/11 09:30 
2    8.4 04/29/11  03:11
3    8.6 04/29/11  05:32
4    8.6 04/29/11  09:53
5    1.4 05/01/11  19:52
> new.Mat <- dget(textConnection(y))