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The R Journal
Date of this Version
12-2018
Document Type
Article
Citation
The R Journal (December 2018) 10(2); Editor: John Verzani
Abstract
MessagePack, or MsgPack for short, or when referring to the implementation, is an efficient binary serialization format for exchanging data between different programming languages. The RcppMsgPack package provides R with both the MessagePack C++ header files, and the ability to access, create and alter MessagePack objects directly from R. The main driver functions of the R interface are two functions msgpack_pack and msgpack_unpack. The function msgpack_pack serializes Robjects to a raw MessagePack message. The function msgpack_unpack de-serializes MessagePack messages back into R objects. Several helper functions are available to aid in processing and formatting data including msgpack_simplify, msgpack_format and msgpack_map
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Copyright 2018, The R Foundation. Open access material. License: CC BY 4.0 International