az_container: Connect to an Azure Blob Storage container

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Connect to an Azure Blob Storage container

Description

az_conainer is a convenience function to create an AzureFileSystem object that provides a file system interface for blob storage containers in an Azure Storage Account.

Usage

az_container(container_path, ...)

Arguments

container_path	string Container name or path.
...	Additional connection options, passed to AzureFileSystem$create().

Value

A SubTreeFileSystem containing an AzureFileSystem and the container's relative path. Note that this function's success does not guarantee that you are authorized to access the container's contents.

Examples

container_fs <- az_container(
  container_path = "arrow-datasets",
  account_name = azurite_account_name,
  account_key = azurite_account_key,
  blob_storage_authority = azurite_blob_storage_authority,
  blob_storage_scheme = azurite_blob_storage_scheme
)

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