Dear R-develers, Antoine Lucas suggested extending my small digest package (which provides md5 and sha-1 digests of R objects, which it are serialized if needed) with a crc32 function, and provided a fairly complete patch.
We are now wondering if we should play it safe and bundle crc32.c (plus utils) in the digest sources (as I do with md5 and sha1), or if we can assume that crc32 is present on all R platforms thanks to zlib. Is that the case? If so, is it a good idea to use it even though it doesn't appear in the header files? Or should we package "our" copy? Thanks in advance for any advice, Dirk -- Better to have an approximate answer to the right question than a precise answer to the wrong question. -- John Tukey as quoted by John Chambers ______________________________________________ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
