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Rcpp Interface to the Google FarmHash Family of Hash Functions

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Motivation

Google BigQuery uses FarmHash in its FARM_FINGERPRINT function. By using the same underlying FarmHash library, this package allows R users to compute the same hash digest fingerprints.

Example

suppressMessages({ library(RcppFarmHash); library(bit64) }) farmhash(c("foo", "bar", "baz")) integer64 [1] 6150913649986995171 -98778129085727977 3758908700204700005

Installation

The package can be installed from CRAN via the usual command

install.packages("RcppFarmHash")

or, alternatively, also directly from the source repository:

remotes::install_github("eddelbuettel/rcppfarmhash")

License

This package is licensed under the GNU GPL, Version 2 or later.

FarmHash is licensed under the MIT license.

Author

For the R package, Dirk Eddelbuettel.

For everything pertaining to FarmHash, Geoff Pike and contributors.