compact: Compact a ff vector or ffdf data frame

In ffbase: Basic Statistical Functions for Package 'ff'

Description

Compact takes a ff vector and tries to use the smallest binary data type for this vector.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'ff'
compact(x, use.na = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

x	ff or ffdf object
use.na	logical if TRUE the resulting ff vector can contain NA, otherwise this is not checked
...	other parameters

Value

compact cloned ff vector, or original if no compacting can be done

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