R Consortium September 2024 newsletter: share updates of your working group

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Hi @HenrikBengtsson  and team,
I am Coline Zeballos, R Strategy Lead at Roche and member of the R Consortium's Marketing committee.
I am currently collecting working group updates for the RC's quarterly newsletter which will be published at the end of September 2024. Would you like to share a couple of updates for your WG? If so, please do so until Sept 16th. Thank you!
Coline, on behalf of the R Consortium Marketing Committee

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Please check the content I plan on publishing in the newsletter today. It is based on the working group's GH README.

"Welcome to the R Consortium ISC Work Group on Marshaling and Serialization in R started in May 2024.

This working group aims at developing standard practices for marshaling and unmarshaling of R objects. This will involve identifying current problems, raising awareness of it, coming up with technical solutions, which might require additions to base R. For example, one solution might be to introduce support for serialize() and unserialize() to call registered hook functions whenever certain types of objects are encountered, which then could marshall and unmarshall those objects.

More information can be found here: https://github.com/RConsortium/marshalling-wg"