brotli: A Compression Format Optimized for the Web

A lossless compressed data format that uses a combination of the LZ77 algorithm and Huffman coding <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7932>. Brotli is similar in speed to deflate (gzip) but offers more dense compression.

Version: 1.3.2
Suggests: spelling, knitr, R.rsp, microbenchmark, rmarkdown, ggplot2
Published: 2025-03-18
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.brotli
Author: Jeroen Ooms ORCID iD [aut, cre], Google, Inc [aut, cph] (Brotli C++ library)
Maintainer: Jeroen Ooms <jeroenooms at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/jeroen/brotli/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://jeroen.r-universe.dev/brotli
NeedsCompilation: yes
Language: en-US
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: brotli results

Documentation:

Reference manual: brotli.html , brotli.pdf
Vignettes: Text Compression in R: brotli, gzip, xz and bz2 (source, R code)
Comparison of Brotli, Deflate, Zopfli, LZMA, LZHAM and Bzip2 Compression Algorithms (source)

Downloads:

Package source: brotli_1.3.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: brotli_1.3.2.zip, r-release: brotli_1.3.2.zip, r-oldrel: brotli_1.3.2.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): brotli_1.3.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): brotli_1.3.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): brotli_1.3.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): brotli_1.3.2.tgz
Old sources: brotli archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports: Racmacs, reqres, rtsdata
Reverse suggests: webfakes

Linking:

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