On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen <
kasperdanielhansen@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Michael Lawrence
> <lawrence.michael@gene.com> wrote:
> > It will be open, as soon as we've started :) Basically want a more
> > efficient/convenient API on top of the ncdf4 package. Richard Bourgon has
> an
> > ExpressionSet class that holds any element in assayData that exposes a
> > "rectangular" API. It's working now for mmapable files via the ff
> package.
> > Just like DataFrame works for any vector-like object.  Pete Haverty has
> > extended ExpressionSet to hold a RangedData for fast interval-based
> > subsetting. Just an overview of the different directions that we want to
> > sort of merge together.
>
> I have been doing essentially the same at Pete for my work.  Would he
> be interested in starting a package purely with the intention of
> developing the backend (in case he - like me - is still working on the
> application, but is interested in having a robust backend)?  Of
> course, Richard's stuff sounds interesting as well.
>
>
I think he's already got a pretty mature package. I shouldn't speak for him
though, so I've cc'd him on this.


It seems silly to spend time developing this in parallel.
>
> Kasper
>

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