Use R.utils in place of archive?

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Use R.utils in place of archive? #33

Closed cboettig closed 4 years ago

cboettig commented 4 years ago

I haven't looked deeply enough to be sure this would work, but just an idea. The situation with archive(https://github.com/jimhester/archive/issues/28) does seem rather tragic, but for bowerbird to be CRAN-compatible, perhaps you could use the extended compression utilities in https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/R.utils instead?

raymondben commented 4 years ago

Unfortunately archive is needed purely for handling .Z files, which R.utils doesn't support.

cboettig commented 4 years ago

Ha! And I'd of thought good ol unix compress was something that base R would have built right in. Given that LZW compression algorithm is arguably a bit of a legacy thing these days, maybe archive could be made an opt-in rather than a hard dependency as well?

raymondben commented 4 years ago

archive is a Suggested package only, so not much more to do here I don't think