Jan
Makes sense. Its just that I often receive large zip files that contain a
variety of file types.
Jef
-----Original Message-----
From: R-help <r-help-boun...@r-project.org> On Behalf Of Jan van der Laan
Sent: Wednesday, June 9, 2021 12:56 PM
To: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Read fst files
read_fst is from the package fst. The fileformat fst uses is a binary
format designed to be fast readable. It is a column oriented format and
compressed. So, to be able to work fst needs access to the file itself
and wont accept a file connection as functions like read.table an
variants accept.
Also, because it is a binary compressed format using a compression
method that is fast to read, compressing also to zip seems to defeat the
purpose of fst.
HTH,
Jan
On 09-06-2021 15:28, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 09/06/2021 9:12 a.m., Jeff Reichman wrote:
>> Duncan
>>
>> Yea that will work. It appears to be related to setting my working
>> dir, for what ever reason neither seem to work
>> (1) knitr::opts_knit$set(root.dir
>> ="~/My_Reference_Library/Regression") # from R Notebook or
>> (2)
>> setwd("C:/Users/reichmaj/Documents/My_Reference_Library/Regression") #
>> from R chunk
>>
>> So it appears I can either (as you suggested) use two steps or combine
>> but I need to enter the full path. Why other file types don't seem to
>> need the full path ....?????
>
> You need to read the documentation for read_fst() to find what it needs.
> If it doesn't explain this, then you should report the issue to its
> author.
>
>>
>> myObject <-
>> read_fst(unz("C:/Users/reichmaj/Documents/My_Reference_Library/Regression/Datasest.zip",
>>
>> filename = "myFile.fst"))
>>
>> Thank you. I guess just one of those R things
>
> No, it's a read_fst() thing.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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