How allocate STRSXP outside of gc

-----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/

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