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 R objects 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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Ching & Eddelbuettel, "The R Journal: RcppMsgPack: MessagePack Headers and Interface Functions for R", The R Journal, 2018
BibTeX citation
@article{RJ-2018-068,
author = {Ching, Travers and Eddelbuettel, Dirk},
title = {The R Journal: RcppMsgPack: MessagePack Headers and Interface Functions for R},
journal = {The R Journal},
year = {2018},
note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2018-068},
doi = {10.32614/RJ-2018-068},
volume = {10},
issue = {2},
issn = {2073-4859},
pages = {516-525}
}