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Support for writing to gzip (.gz) with fwrite #2016
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Dear Mr. How can I solve this problem? |
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Please don't post comments with simply "+1". This adds absolutely no value. Either write something of value that adds something to the discussion or use the thumbs up emoticon / reaction on the original post to express interest in the issue and a solution to it. I'm in favor of deleting such comments, including mine BTW, because it is of no consequence to the technical discussion of this issue as writing "+1". Please, people, please ;) |
write.csv
can handle the following:But
fwrite
cannot:(because the
gzf
object is more complicated than just being a file path).fwrite(DT, tmp.gz)
, as expected, does not perform compression -- the output is the same size asfwrite(DT, tempfile())
(which is different fromwrite.csv
).I'm using
fwrite
to pipe some output to Vowpal Wabbit, trying to use the--compressed
argument to save on some disk space. Workaround is tofwrite
thengzip
, but this seems sub-optimal.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: