bitsqueezr is an R package providing a simple and fast
(C-based) method of quantizing floating point numbers for
precision-preserving compression, as implemented in the netCDF Operators (NCO) software
package and described by John
Caron (2014) and Charlie
Zender (2016).
bitsqueezr is available through CRAN and can be
installed using install.packages:
install.packages('bitsqueezr')The package has no external dependencies.