Editing Serialization (section)

===R===
[[R (programming language)|R]] has the function <code>dput</code> which writes an ASCII text representation of an R object to a file or connection. A representation can be read from a file using <code>dget</code>.<ref>[R manual http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/base/html/dput.html]</ref> More specific, the function <code>serialize</code> serializes an R object to a connection, the output being a raw vector coded in hexadecimal format. The <code>unserialize</code> function allows to read an object from a connection or a raw vector.<ref>[R manual http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/base/html/serialize.html]</ref>