Snappier

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"