[Rprotobuf-yada] RprotoBuf initiation

[Etienne Bellemare Racine]

Dirk Eddelbuettel :
> On 10 February 2010 at 10:31, Etienne Bellemare Racine wrote:
> | I've gone to some of the vignettes and Google's documentation and I 
> | understand (I'm sorry if this is obvious I just want to be sure I 
> | understand right) that with proto buffer, you don't introduce a new way 
> | of creating structures in R, you provide a way to share a common 
> | structure with other languages.
>
> Precisely. In a portable, efficient, fast and extensible matter.
>   
Of course !
> | So you can, to take the address book example, get stats in R from an 
> | address book which would be managed by some Java code, without passing 
> | by Java to let R access the data or vice versa.
>
> Right. You'd use native Java code to read, write, alter, ... the addressbook
> encoded in a binary file and describe in a '.proto' ProtoBuf definiton. Now
> thanks to RProtoBuf you can read, write, alter, ... the same addressbook with
> having to pass data back and for to Java -- you simple read, write, ... the
> protobuf file.
>
> Plus, and while Google does not provide a network layer, you can do the same
> thing 'over the wire' instead of with files, or store it in a database and
> have clients in R, Java, Python, C++, ... all access the (binary) data as
> they all can deparse the ProtoBuf representation. 
>
> Makes sense now?
>   
Yes, thank you very much.

Etienne
> Amicalement,  Dirk
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