I think the first step would have to be to add zstd support to R. zstd is a bit
controversial (as shown by the community blowback of the changes you mentioned)
and their build system (calling it that is being very generous) is mess so it
would require a bit of testing, but it is doable.
That sa
On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 16:05:46 -0800
Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> It's probably also worth looking at package compression with 'xz'
> compression. In [1], Mike FC has a graph where 'bzip2' and 'xz' seem
> to give the best compression ratios, at least for RDS files.
'bzip2' can be surprisingly good on
