read_ipc_file: Read an Arrow IPC file

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Read an Arrow IPC file

Description

The Arrow IPC file format provides binary columnar serialization for data frames. It is designed to make reading and writing data frames efficient, and to make sharing data across data analysis languages easy.

Usage

read_ipc_file(file, col_select = NULL, as_data_frame = TRUE, mmap = TRUE)

Arguments

file	A character file name or URI, connection, raw vector, an Arrow input stream, or a FileSystem with path (SubTreeFileSystem). If a file name or URI, an Arrow InputStream will be opened and closed when finished. If an input stream is provided, it will be left open.
col_select	A character vector of column names to keep, as in the "select" argument to data.table::fread(), or a tidy selection specification of columns, as used in dplyr::select().
as_data_frame	Should the function return a tibble (default) or an Arrow Table?
mmap	Logical: whether to memory-map the file (default TRUE)

Details

This function can also read the legacy Feather V1 format.

Value

A tibble if as_data_frame is TRUE (the default), or an Arrow Table otherwise

See Also

FeatherReader and RecordBatchReader for lower-level access to reading Arrow IPC data.

Examples

tf <- tempfile(fileext = ".arrow")
on.exit(unlink(tf))
write_ipc_file(mtcars, tf)
df <- read_ipc_file(tf)
dim(df)
# Can select columns
df <- read_ipc_file(tf, col_select = starts_with("d"))

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