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LZ4 Data Compression and Decompression for R
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Submit to CRAN? #5

Open thebioengineer opened 6 years ago

thebioengineer commented 6 years ago

First, I wanted to thank you for putting this package together, it is helping some work I do tremendously.

I was curious if there were plans for submitting this to the CRAN or making this easier to install if it is added as a dependency to a package.

Thanks!!

bwlewis commented 6 years ago

Hi, thanks for the kind words.

I think before CRAN I'd like to see the following:

  1. At least one outstanding bug needs fixed (https://github.com/bwlewis/lz4/issues/4), which I will work on soon
  2. Right now, the package only implements the memCompress/memDecompress full-dataset-in-memory interface. For my purposes at the time I wrote this, that's all I needed. But a full-fledged lz4 CRAN package should also implement the lz4 data streaming interface, which would make the package much more broadly useful (issue #1).

I'd really like to get that into the package before sending to CRAN, but perhaps amazingly, I just have not had the time to work on it in the last two years(!).

Help is greatly appreciated...

xiaodaigh commented 4 years ago

Bump. I think it works great now. I think a first CRAN version would be highly appreciated!

See issue https://github.com/fstpackage/fst/issues/223

I think a standalone lz4 compression package will be highly valuable!