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Read into a DataFrame from Arrow IPC (Feather v2) file

Description

Read into a DataFrame from Arrow IPC (Feather v2) file

Usage

pl_read_ipc(
  source,
  ...,
  n_rows = NULL,
  memory_map = TRUE,
  row_index_name = NULL,
  row_index_offset = 0L,
  rechunk = FALSE,
  cache = TRUE
)

Arguments

source A single character or a raw vector of Apache Arrow IPC file. You can use globbing with \* to scan/read multiple files in the same directory (see examples).
Ignored.
n_rows Maximum number of rows to read.
memory_map A logical. If TRUE, try to memory map the file. This can greatly improve performance on repeated queries as the OS may cache pages. Only uncompressed Arrow IPC files can be memory mapped.
row_index_name If not NULL, this will insert a row index column with the given name into the DataFrame.
row_index_offset Offset to start the row index column (only used if the name is set).
rechunk In case of reading multiple files via a glob pattern, rechunk the final DataFrame into contiguous memory chunks.
cache Cache the result after reading.

Value

DataFrame

Examples

library(polars)


temp_dir = tempfile()
# Write a hive-style partitioned arrow file dataset
arrow::write_dataset(
  mtcars,
  temp_dir,
  partitioning = c("cyl", "gear"),
  format = "arrow",
  hive_style = TRUE
)
list.files(temp_dir, recursive = TRUE)
#> [1] "cyl=4/gear=3/part-0.arrow" "cyl=4/gear=4/part-0.arrow"
#> [3] "cyl=4/gear=5/part-0.arrow" "cyl=6/gear=3/part-0.arrow"
#> [5] "cyl=6/gear=4/part-0.arrow" "cyl=6/gear=5/part-0.arrow"
#> [7] "cyl=8/gear=3/part-0.arrow" "cyl=8/gear=5/part-0.arrow"
# Read the dataset
# Sinse hive-style partitioning is not supported,
# the `cyl` and `gear` columns are not contained in the result
pl$read_ipc(
  file.path(temp_dir, "**/*.arrow")
)
#> shape: (32, 9)
#> ┌──────┬───────┬───────┬──────┬───┬───────┬─────┬─────┬──────┐
#> │ mpg  ┆ disp  ┆ hp    ┆ drat ┆ … ┆ qsec  ┆ vs  ┆ am  ┆ carb │
#> │ ---  ┆ ---   ┆ ---   ┆ ---  ┆   ┆ ---   ┆ --- ┆ --- ┆ ---  │
#> │ f64  ┆ f64   ┆ f64   ┆ f64  ┆   ┆ f64   ┆ f64 ┆ f64 ┆ f64  │
#> ╞══════╪═══════╪═══════╪══════╪═══╪═══════╪═════╪═════╪══════╡
#> │ 21.5 ┆ 120.1 ┆ 97.0  ┆ 3.7  ┆ … ┆ 20.01 ┆ 1.0 ┆ 0.0 ┆ 1.0  │
#> │ 22.8 ┆ 108.0 ┆ 93.0  ┆ 3.85 ┆ … ┆ 18.61 ┆ 1.0 ┆ 1.0 ┆ 1.0  │
#> │ 24.4 ┆ 146.7 ┆ 62.0  ┆ 3.69 ┆ … ┆ 20.0  ┆ 1.0 ┆ 0.0 ┆ 2.0  │
#> │ 22.8 ┆ 140.8 ┆ 95.0  ┆ 3.92 ┆ … ┆ 22.9  ┆ 1.0 ┆ 0.0 ┆ 2.0  │
#> │ 32.4 ┆ 78.7  ┆ 66.0  ┆ 4.08 ┆ … ┆ 19.47 ┆ 1.0 ┆ 1.0 ┆ 1.0  │
#> │ …    ┆ …     ┆ …     ┆ …    ┆ … ┆ …     ┆ …   ┆ …   ┆ …    │
#> │ 15.2 ┆ 304.0 ┆ 150.0 ┆ 3.15 ┆ … ┆ 17.3  ┆ 0.0 ┆ 0.0 ┆ 2.0  │
#> │ 13.3 ┆ 350.0 ┆ 245.0 ┆ 3.73 ┆ … ┆ 15.41 ┆ 0.0 ┆ 0.0 ┆ 4.0  │
#> │ 19.2 ┆ 400.0 ┆ 175.0 ┆ 3.08 ┆ … ┆ 17.05 ┆ 0.0 ┆ 0.0 ┆ 2.0  │
#> │ 15.8 ┆ 351.0 ┆ 264.0 ┆ 4.22 ┆ … ┆ 14.5  ┆ 0.0 ┆ 1.0 ┆ 4.0  │
#> │ 15.0 ┆ 301.0 ┆ 335.0 ┆ 3.54 ┆ … ┆ 14.6  ┆ 0.0 ┆ 1.0 ┆ 8.0  │
#> └──────┴───────┴───────┴──────┴───┴───────┴─────┴─────┴──────┘
# Read a raw vector
arrow::arrow_table(
  foo = 1:5,
  bar = 6:10,
  ham = letters[1:5]
) |>
  arrow::write_to_raw(format = "file") |>
  pl$read_ipc()
#> shape: (5, 3)
#> ┌─────┬─────┬─────┐
#> │ foo ┆ bar ┆ ham │
#> │ --- ┆ --- ┆ --- │
#> │ i32 ┆ i32 ┆ str │
#> ╞═════╪═════╪═════╡
#> │ 1   ┆ 6   ┆ a   │
#> │ 2   ┆ 7   ┆ b   │
#> │ 3   ┆ 8   ┆ c   │
#> │ 4   ┆ 9   ┆ d   │
#> │ 5   ┆ 10  ┆ e   │
#> └─────┴─────┴─────┘