[Rd] How allocate STRSXP outside of gc

[Vadim Ogranovich]

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 at vanderbilt.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 11:19 AM
> To: Vadim Ogranovich
> Cc: r-devel at 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
>