arkdb (version 0.0.18)

streamable_table: streamable table

Description

streamable table

Usage

streamable_table(read, write, extension)

Value

a streamable_table object (S3)

Arguments

read

read function. Arguments should be "file" (must be able to take a connection() object) and "..." (for) additional arguments.

write

write function. Arguments should be "data" (a data.frame), file (must be able to take a connection() object), and "omit_header" logical, include header (initial write) or not (for appending subsequent chunks)

extension

file extension to use (e.g. "tsv", "csv")

Details

Note several constraints on this design. The write method must be able to take a generic R connection object (which will allow it to handle the compression methods used, if any), and the read method must be able to take a textConnection object. readr functions handle these cases out of the box, so the above method is easy to write. Also note that the write method must be able to omit_header. See the built-in methods for more examples.

Examples

streamable_readr_tsv <- function() {
  streamable_table(
    function(file, ...) readr::read_tsv(file, ...),
    function(x, path, omit_header) {
      readr::write_tsv(x = x, path = path, omit_header = omit_header)
    },
    "tsv"
  )
}