What is Arrow Package in R?
The Arrow package available in R offers a range of tools to work with the Arrow and Feather format. The Arrow format enables efficient data interchange between various computing environments and is language-agnostic. It allows sharing of data between diverse platforms and programming languages.
The Arrow format relies on columnar data representation which is memory-efficient and allows for speedy data processing and analysis, unlike the traditional row-oriented formats such as CSV or JSON. The data is stored in a binary format, which makes it more compact and faster to read and write than text-based formats.
The Arrow package provides different functions that help us to work with arrow data. It allows us to read and write files, manipulate arrow data structures like arrays and tables, convert data between the arrow and other formats, etc. It also provides a set of tools to handle the metadata, by helping to attach additional information, such as column names, data types, and other metadata.
How to read column names and metadata from feather files in R arrow?
To access column names and metadata from feather files in R programming, we use the R Arrow package to load the feather file into a data frame. After loading the feather file, we can retrieve the column names and metadata attributes by using the Feather package.