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Posted to issues@arrow.apache.org by "Neal Richardson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org> on 2019/06/03 22:38:00 UTC

[jira] [Created] (ARROW-5501) [R] read/write_feather/arrow?

Neal Richardson created ARROW-5501:
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             Summary: [R] read/write_feather/arrow?
                 Key: ARROW-5501
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5501
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: R
            Reporter: Neal Richardson
             Fix For: 0.14.0


read_feather and write_feather exist, and there is also write_arrow. But no read_arrow.

Some questions (which go beyond just R): There's talk of a "feather 2.0", i.e. "just" serializing the IPC format (which IIUC is what write_arrow does). Are we going to continue to call the file format "Feather", and possibly continue supporting the "feather 1.0" format as a subset/special case? Or will "feather" mean this limited format and "arrow" be the name of the full-featured file?

In terms of this issue, should write_arrow be folded into write_feather and there be an argument for indicating which version to write? Or should the distinction be maintained, and we need to add a read_arrow() function?



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