ffbase2 (version 0.2)

as_ffdf: Convert a data.frame to a ffdf object

Description

Improved version of as.ffdf: - Automatically converts characters to factors: ff does not support character vectors - allow for zero row data.frames

Usage

as_ffdf(x, character_to_factor = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

x

a data.frame or coercable to a data.frame

character_to_factor

logical will coerce a character to factor, since those types cannot be stored in ff.

...

given to as.ffdf