R devel - Nov 1997 - R-alpha: Reading a data.dump format

Has anyone taken a crack at creating an R function that would read the 
data.dump format?
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>>>>> "DougB" == Douglas Bates
<bates@stat.wisc.edu> writes:
    DougB> Has anyone taken a crack at creating an R function that would
    DougB> read the data.dump format?

This has been listed as a `desideratum'
 -- something we'd all like -- for a while now.

Actually, both   data.dump and data.restore.

Any students who need a challenging home work ?  :-)
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