collect: Bring the disk.frame into R

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Bring the disk.frame into R

Description

Bring the disk.frame into RAM by loading the data and running all lazy operations as data.table/data.frame or as a list

Bring the disk.frame into RAM by loading the data and running all lazy operations as data.table/data.frame or as a list

Usage

## S3 method for class 'disk.frame'
collect(x, ..., parallel = !is.null(attr(x, "recordings")))

collect_list(
  x,
  simplify = FALSE,
  parallel = !is.null(attr(x, "recordings")),
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'summarized_disk.frame'
collect(x, ..., parallel = !is.null(attr(x, "recordings")))

Arguments

x	a disk.frame
...	not used
parallel	if TRUE the collection is performed in parallel. By default if there are delayed/lazy steps then it will be parallel, otherwise it will not be in parallel. This is because parallel requires transferring data from background R session to the current R session and if there is no computation then it's better to avoid transferring data between session, hence parallel = FALSE is a better choice
simplify	Should the result be simplified to array

Value

collect return a data.frame/data.table

collect_list returns a list

collect return a data.frame/data.table

Examples

cars.df = as.disk.frame(cars)
# use collect to bring the data into RAM as a data.table/data.frame
collect(cars.df)

# clean up
delete(cars.df)
cars.df = as.disk.frame(cars)

# returns the result as a list
collect_list(cmap(cars.df, ~1))

# clean up
delete(cars.df)
cars.df = as.disk.frame(cars)
# use collect to bring the data into RAM as a data.table/data.frame
collect(cars.df)

# clean up
delete(cars.df)

disk.frame documentation built on Aug. 24, 2023, 5:09 p.m.