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
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.blosc
Author:	Pepijn de Vries [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_0.0.6.zip, r-release: blosc_0.0.6.zip, r-oldrel: blosc_0.0.6.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

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