Question

Point out the correct statement?

(a) The complement to the textual format is the binary format

(b) If you have a lot of objects that you want to save to a file, you can save all objects in your workspace using the save.image() function

(c) The serialize() function is used to convert individual R objects into a binary format that can be communicated across an arbitrary connection

(d) All of the mentioned

The question was posed to me in an interview for job.

This interesting question is from Connection Interfaces in chapter R – Data Storage, Formats, Objects and Operations of R Programming

Answer 1

Correct choice is (d) All of the mentioned

The best explanation: It’s better to stick with a binary format for efficiency and accuracy.