R help - Nov 2009 - serialized plot object (2 years later)

About 2 years ago, Tobias Verbeke asked:

"I am looking for a way to capture the binary string that in normal use of
graphics devices will bewritten to (most commonly) a file connection... Is there
a way of capturing the binary `jpeg string'
[generated by jpeg()]?"

http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/devel/07/09/4276.html

Brian Ripley's answer was "Nope, unfortunately, they write to files not
connections and no R object
is involved."

Is this still the case?
 		 	   		  
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Hi Jack,

Jack Tanner wrote:
> About 2 years ago, Tobias Verbeke asked:
> 
> "I am looking for a way to capture the binary string that in normal
use of graphics devices will bewritten to (most commonly) a file connection...
Is there a way of capturing the binary `jpeg string'
> [generated by jpeg()]?"
> 
> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/devel/07/09/4276.html
> 
> Brian Ripley's answer was "Nope, unfortunately, they write to
files not connections and no R object
> is involved."
> 
> Is this still the case?
Yes (assuming your question wasn't a rhetorical question).

I still think it would be a useful feature if graphics devices
could write to connections.

Best,
Tobias

P.S. Your question seems more appropriate for R-devel.