The R Journal: article published in 2018, volume 10:2

RcppMsgPack: MessagePack Headers and Interface Functions for R
Travers Ching and Dirk Eddelbuettel , The R Journal (2018) 10:2, pages 516-525.

Abstract MessagePack, or MsgPack for short, or when referring to the implementation, is an efficient binary serialization format for exchanging data between different programming languages. The RcppMsgPack package provides R with both the MessagePack C++ header files, and the ability to access, create and alter MessagePack objects directly from R. The main driver functions of the R interface are two functions msgpack_pack and msgpack_unpack. The function msgpack_pack serializes R objects to a raw MessagePack message. The function msgpack_unpack de-serializes MessagePack messages back into R objects. Several helper functions are available to aid in processing and formatting data including msgpack_simplify, msgpack_format and msgpack_map.

Received: 2018-07-31; online 2018-12-08, supplementary material, (1 MiB)
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@article{RJ-2018-068,
  author = {Travers Ching and Dirk Eddelbuettel},
  title = {{RcppMsgPack: MessagePack Headers and Interface Functions for
          R}},
  year = {2018},
  journal = {{The R Journal}},
  doi = {10.32614/RJ-2018-068},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2018-068},
  pages = {516--525},
  volume = {10},
  number = {2}
}