A new package! Or at least new on CRAN as the very initial version 0.1.0 had been available via the ghrr drat for over a year. But now we have version 0.1.1 to announce as a CRAN package.
RcppMspPack provides R with MessagePack header files for use via C++ (or C, if you must) packages such as RcppRedis.
MessagePack itself is an efficient binary serialization format. It lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON. But it is faster and smaller. Small integers are encoded into a single byte, and typical short strings require only one extra byte in addition to the strings themselves.
MessagePack is used by Redis and many other projects, and has bindings to just about any language.
To use this package, simply add it to the LinkingTo: field in the DESCRIPTION field of your R package---and the R package infrastructure tools will then know how to set include flags correctly on all architectures supported by R.
More information may be on the RcppMsgPack page. Issues and bugreports should go to the GitHub issue tracker.
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