fstcore
R Bindings to the 'Fstlib' Library
The 'fstlib' library provides multithreaded serialization of compressed data frames using the 'fst' format. The 'fst' format allows for random access of stored data and compression with the 'LZ4' and 'ZSTD' compressors.
Overview
R package fstcore contains R bindings to the C++ fstlib library which allows interfacing with fst files.
It also contains the LZ4 and ZSTD sources used for compression. fstcore exists as a package separate from the
fst package to facilitate independent updates to the fstlib, LZ4 and ZSTD libraries and is used as a
backend to fst.
Installation
Package fstcore is automatically installed as a dependency when you install the fst package from CRAN.
If you need to install it directly, you can use:
install.packages("fstcore")
You can also use the development version from GitHub:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("fstpackage/fstcore", ref = "develop")
Basic usage
Please refer to https://www.fstpackage.org/fst to get an introduction to using the fst package.
Contact
Questions, ideas and issues can be reported in the fst package repository.