/snappier

R bindings for the snappy compression library

Primary LanguageC++OtherNOASSERTION

Snappier

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R package bindings for the Snappy library.

This library provides compressions and decompression of Snappy bytestrings in R.

Benefits

  • Snappy C/C++ code is embedded in the library, so external dependencies are not required.
  • Use or RAWSXP underneath prevents runtime errors
  • Direct access to R's internal data structures is given to the Snappy library, so it's about as efficient as it can be.
  • Round trip tests with hedgehog provide good assurances for correctness.

Basic Usage

# Compress a character vector
comp <- compress("this text will be compressed")
decompress(comp)
## [1] "this text will be compressed"