Romain Francois <romain@r-enthusiasts.com> and Dirk
Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>

Romain Francois, Dirk Eddelbuettel and Murray Stokely

Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an
efficient yet extensible format. Google uses Protocol Buffers for almost all
of its internal RPC protocols and file formats.

Romain Francois, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Murray Stokely and Jeroen Ooms

Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an
efficient yet extensible format. Google uses Protocol Buffers for almost all
of its internal RPC protocols and file formats.  Additional
documentation is available in the arXiv.org preprint "RProtoBuf:
Efficient Cross-Language Data Serialization in R" by Eddelbuettel,
Stokely, and Ooms (2014) http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7372

R Interface to the 'Protocol Buffers' 'API' (Version 2 or 3)
Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an
efficient yet extensible format. Google uses Protocol Buffers for almost all
of its internal 'RPC' protocols and file formats.  Additional documentation
is available in two included vignettes one of which corresponds to our paper
in the Journal of Statistical Software (2016, v71i02). Either version 2 or 3
of the 'Protocol Buffers' 'API' is supported.
ProtoBuf libraries and compiler version 2.2.0 or
later; version 3.0.0 or later is supported as well. On
Debian/Ubuntu these can be installed as libprotoc-dev and
libprotobuf-dev, while on Fedora/CentOS protobuf-devel and
protobuf-compiler are needed.

Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an
efficient yet extensible format. Google uses Protocol Buffers for almost all
of its internal 'RPC' protocols and file formats.  Additional documentation
is available in two included vignettes one of which corresponds to our 'JSS'
paper (2016, <doi:10.18637/jss.v071.i02>. Either version 2 or 3 of the
'Protocol Buffers' 'API' is supported.
ProtoBuf libraries and compiler version 2.2.0 or
later; version 3.0.0 or later is supported as well. On
Debian/Ubuntu these can be installed as libprotoc-dev,
libprotobuf-dev and protobuf-compiler, while on Fedora/CentOS
protobuf-devel and protobuf-compiler are needed.