[Rprotobuf-yada] RprotoBuf initiation

[Etienne Bellemare Racine]

Hi list,

Following the annouce of the release of RprotoBuf I read on romain's 
blog 
<http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr/index.php?post/2010/02/04/RProtoBuf%3A-protocol-buffers-meet-R>, 
To his suggestion, I repost my comment here for an open discussion.

RprotoBuf seems promizing, but could you provide a scenario comparing 
the traditional R approach and the proto buffer approach ? Are you 
suggesting the use the proto buffer instead of S4 class definition ? It 
appear like a way to access and store larger data structures by not 
loading it in memory, am I wrong ?

Thanks,
Etienne
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