You could first have a look at the LaF packge. It does a lot of what you want already. -M
Op zo 17 sep. 2017 om 04:41 schreef Juan Telleria <jteller...@gmail.com>: > Dear R Developers, > > I am writing as I would like to propose a github project for the creation > of on-disk data.frames/tibbles. > > These new S3 class, could be based on feathers (which have a columnar > structure for saving data), which would allow the use of matrix notation or > $ symbols for individual column access, as if they where regular in-memory > data.frames. > > The feather github project link is on the following page: > https://github.com/wesm/feather > > SparkR Apache project, as I have been told in R-devel, offers a similar > functionality, but the point is to extend it for feathers: > > https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sparkr.html > > Anyone would be interested in such project? > > Kind regards, > Juan > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel