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Compress and Decompress Data Using the 'BLOSC' Library

v0.1.2 · Sep 26, 2025 · GPL (>= 3)

Description

Arrays of structured data types can require large volumes of disk space to store. 'Blosc' is a library that provides a fast and efficient way to compress such data. It is often applied in storage of n-dimensional arrays, such as in the case of the geo-spatial 'zarr' file format. This package can be used to compress and decompress data using 'Blosc'.

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Check History

OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 8, 2026
WARNING 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 7, 2026
WARNING r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

top-level files

Output from running autoreconf:
  autoreconf: error: aclocal terminated by signal: 2
OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 2, 2026
NOTE 11 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 25, 2026
NOTE r-release-macos-x86_64

compiled code

File ‘blosc/libs/blosc.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_NamespaceRegistry’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 8, 2026
NOTE 13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 30, 2026
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

compiled code

File ‘blosc/libs/blosc.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_NamespaceRegistry’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Code

Structure

Lines of code

2,219

Files

46

Compiled share

58.4%

Has compiled src

Yes

Language breakdown

R 217 (9.8%)C/C++/src 1,296 (58.4%)Tests 209 (9.4%)Docs 213 (9.6%)Vignettes 284 (12.8%)

API

Exported functions

5

Internal functions

8

Recent export changes

v0.0.6+5 blosc_compress, blosc_decompress, blosc_info +2 more

Testing & CI

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

1.15

testthat edition

3

CI present

No

CI type

[]

PR gated

No

Docs

Return-value doc rate

100%

\dontrun example ratio

0%

Roxygen coverage

100%

Has pkgdown

No

NEWS present

Yes

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

4.3

System requirements

1

C++ standard

License

GPL (>= 3)

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

3

First release

2025-09-01

Latest release

2025-09-26

Avg cadence

13 days

Cold removal rate

Dep drift

0

LOC over versions

v0.0.6: 2,068 LOCv0.1.1: 2,219 LOCv0.1.2: 2,219 LOC

Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/cran-code-metrics.

Reverse Dependencies (2)

imports

suggests

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies zarr pizzarr blosc

Version History

4 tracked
new 0.1.2 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.1.2 ← 0.1.1 diff Sep 26, 2025
updated 0.1.1 ← 0.0.6 diff Sep 10, 2025
new 0.0.6 Aug 31, 2025