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Date: 2005-04-14T20:39:13Z
From: Vadim Ogranovich
Subject: How allocate STRSXP outside of gc
Yes, HDF5 had this promise at the time I looked at it, but it was not
there yet. Don't know the current status. Judging from your e-mail,
they've delivered.
Thank you for pointing to NCO. I didn't know about it.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Horner [mailto:jeff.horner@vanderbilt.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 11:19 AM
> To: Vadim Ogranovich
> Cc: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [Rd] How allocate STRSXP outside of gc
>
> Vadim Ogranovich wrote:
> [...]
> > * AFAIK, there is no industry standard binary format and a mature
> > supporting C-library (especially when the data needs to be
> compressed).
> > I considered HDF and netcdf.
> [...]
>
> Interesting. I just finished reading a little about HDF's new
> format HD5 and their web documentation claims it's flexible
> enough to store compressed or chunked data:
>
> http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/whatishdf5.html
>
> Also, you mentioned that you like line oriented ASCII files
> since many UNIX utilities work with them, but have you
> considered NCO, a collection of UNIX utilites for processing
> netcdf files:
>
> http://nco.sourceforge.net/
>
> --
> Jeffrey Horner Computer Systems Analyst School
> of Medicine
> 615-322-8606 Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt
> University
>