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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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/ > > -- > Jeffrey Horner Computer Systems Analyst School > of Medicine > 615-322-8606 Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt > University > ______________________________________________ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel