RcppFastFloat

Authors Dirk Eddelbuettel, Brendan Knapp, Daniel Lemire

Last update 30 September 2026

Copyright license GNU General Public License, version 2.0, GNU General Public License, version 3.0

Software version identifier 0.0.4, PACKAGES.rds, 0.0.1, 0.0.2, 0.0.3, 0.0.5, 0.0.6

Description

Converting ascii text into (floating-point) numeric values is a very common problem. The 'fast_float' header-only 'C++' library by Daniel Lemire does it very well and very fast at up to or over to 1 gigabyte per second as described in more detail in <doi:10.1002/spe.2984>. 'fast_float' is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license and provided here for use by other R packages via a simple 'LinkingTo:' statement.

Cites work

Number parsing at a gigabyte per second

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