Message-ID: <425EB40D.9040600@vanderbilt.edu>
Date: 2005-04-14T20:19:14Z
From: Jeffrey Horner
Subject: How allocate STRSXP outside of gc
In-Reply-To: <C698D707214E6F4AB39AB7096C3DE5A59E8A42@phost015.EVAFUNDS.intermedia.net>
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/
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Jeffrey Horner Computer Systems Analyst School of Medicine
615-322-8606 Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University