How allocate STRSXP outside of gc
Vadim Ogranovich wrote:
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* 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