R – How to XML deserialize an object of Unknown Type

netxml-serialization

I want to save my object to hard disk (like cache) with XmlSerializer. In this case, I don't have any problem.

However, when I want to deserialize this XML to an object, I get an error. Is there any way
to deserialize XML to an unknown object or to an object that I created?

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There is no way in .Net to deserialize to unknown object.

To successfully serialize/deserialize an XML object the class must have default constructor. The best way is to show us the exact error message. Can you do that?

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