Bug#819735: RFP: r-cran-h5 -- S4-based interface to the HDF5 library for binary data storage

[Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

Debian has a package 'r-cran-hdf5' which provides a basic interface to
libhdf5, but it appears to have been abandoned upstream, and is no longer
available on CRAN.  This would make a suitable replacement.

The long description below has been copied verbatim from the upstream
website.

* Package name    : r-cran-h5
  Version         : 0.9.5
  Upstream Author : Mario Annau <mario.annau@gmail.com>
* URL             : http://h5.predictingdaemon.com/
* License         : BSD (2-clause)
  Programming Lang: R, C++
  Description     : S4-based interface to the HDF5 library for binary data storage

h5 is an R interface to the HDF5 library under active development. It is
available on Github and already released on CRAN for all major platforms
(Windows, OS X, Linux). Online documentation for the package is available
at http://h5.predictingdaemon.com.

HDF5 is an excellent library and data model to store huge amounts of data
in a binary file format. Supporting most major platforms and programming
languages it can be used to exchange data files in a language independent
format. Compared to R's integrated save() and load() functions it also
supports access to only parts of the binary data files and can therefore
be used to process data not fitting into memory.

h5 utilizes the HDF5 C++ API through Rcpp and S4 classes.