A lossless compressed data format that uses a combination of the LZ77 algorithm and Huffman coding. Brotli is similar in speed to deflate (gzip) but offers more dense compression.
| Version: | 0.5 |
| Suggests: | knitr, R.rsp, microbenchmark, ggplot2 |
| Published: | 2016-01-23 |
| Author: | Jeroen Ooms [aut, cre], Google, Inc [aut, cph] (Brotli C++ library) |
| Maintainer: | Jeroen Ooms <jeroen.ooms at stat.ucla.edu> |
| BugReports: | http://github.com/jeroenooms/brotli/issues |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: | http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-alakuijala-brotli https://github.com/google/brotli |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| Materials: | NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | brotli results |
| Reference manual: | brotli.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Text Compression in R: brotli, gzip, xz and bz2 Comparison of Brotli, Deflate, Zopfli, LZMA, LZHAM and Bzip2 Compression Algorithms |
| Package source: | brotli_0.5.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: brotli_0.5.zip, r-release: brotli_0.5.zip, r-oldrel: brotli_0.5.zip |
| OS X Snow Leopard binaries: | r-release: brotli_0.5.tgz, r-oldrel: not available |
| OS X Mavericks binaries: | r-release: brotli_0.5.tgz |
| Old sources: | brotli archive |