Take a look at the information on serialization in 'R Internals'.
AFAICS this is no different from what can happen when loading a saved
workspace.
On 06/12/2011 05:29, Tyler Pirtle wrote:> Hi,
>
> While debugging a network server I'm developing I noticed something
unusual
> - call to unserialize() resulted in
> an error about loading a namespace.
>
> I was a bit taken back by this - why should unserializing an object cause a
> namespace lookup?
> Are there any other side-effects of unserialize() that I should be cautious
> about? I've been
> digging through the R_Unserialize() call, I haven't found the
loadNamespace
> bit yet but I
> assume its in there somewhere.
>
> Is there anyway to guard against R eagerly evaluating serialized data
> (serialize()) being unserialized (unserialize()) ?
Don't unserialize 'eagerly'. Hint: that's what lazy-loading
does.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Tyler
>
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