blosc: Compress and Decompress Data Using the 'BLOSC' Library

Arrays of structured data types can require large volumes of disk space to store. 'Blosc' is a library that provides a fast and efficient way to compress such data. It is often applied in storage of n-dimensional arrays, such as in the case of the geo-spatial 'zarr' file format. This package can be used to compress and decompress data using 'Blosc'.

Version: 0.1.1
Depends: R (≥ 4.3)
LinkingTo: cpp11
Suggests: dplyr, knitr, reticulate, rmarkdown, spelling, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2025-09-11
Author: Pepijn de Vries ORCID iD [aut, cre], Chris Maiwald [cph], Alexander Gessler [cph]
Maintainer: Pepijn de Vries <pepijn.devries at outlook.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/pepijn-devries/blosc/issues
License: GPL (≥ 3)
URL: https://pepijn-devries.github.io/blosc/, https://github.com/pepijn-devries/blosc/
NeedsCompilation: yes
SystemRequirements: blosc: blosc-devel (rpm) or libblosc-dev (deb)
Language: en-US
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: blosc results

Documentation:

Reference manual: blosc.html , blosc.pdf
Vignettes: Blosc Compression (source, R code)
Data Types (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: blosc_0.1.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: blosc_0.1.1.zip, r-release: blosc_0.1.1.zip, r-oldrel: blosc_0.1.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): blosc_0.1.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): blosc_0.1.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): blosc_0.1.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): blosc_0.1.1.tgz
Old sources: blosc archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports: CopernicusMarine

Linking:

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