Having fun learning the @ApacheArrow columnar format /practicing my C game by implementing the fantastic Arrow C API using only base #rstats! Totally experimental but it can successfully roundtrip a few basic types (including factors and data frames!) github.com/paleolimbot/arrow…
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Thumbs up! We use this C interface in TileDB as well, so far still gingerly but for both the Python and the R bindings to interface to Arrow in more lightweight fashion not requiring all the things the native package needs.

Sep 2, 2021 · 8:47 PM UTC

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