Open a dataset from a variety of sources — open

This function opens a dataset from a variety of sources, including Parquet, CSV, etc, using either local file system paths, URLs, or S3 bucket URI notation.

Usage

open_dataset(
  sources,
  schema = NULL,
  hive_style = TRUE,
  unify_schemas = FALSE,
  format = c("parquet", "csv", "tsv", "sf"),
  conn = cached_connection(),
  tblname = tbl_name(sources),
  mode = "VIEW",
  filename = FALSE,
  recursive = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

sources: A character vector of paths to the dataset files.
schema: The schema for the dataset. If NULL, the schema will be inferred from the dataset files.
hive_style: A logical value indicating whether to the dataset uses Hive-style partitioning.
unify_schemas: A logical value indicating whether to unify the schemas of the dataset files (union_by_name). If TRUE, will execute a UNION by column name across all files (NOTE: this can add considerably to the initial execution time)
format: The format of the dataset files. One of "parquet", "csv", "tsv", or "sf" (spatial vector files supported by the sf package / GDAL). if no argument is provided, the function will try to guess the type based on minimal heuristics.
conn: A connection to a database.
tblname: The name of the table to create in the database.
mode: The mode to create the table in. One of "VIEW" or "TABLE". Creating a VIEW, the default, will execute more quickly because it does not create a local copy of the dataset. TABLE will create a local copy in duckdb's native format, downloading the full dataset if necessary. When using TABLE mode with large data, please be sure to use a conn connections with disk-based storage, e.g. by calling cached_connection(), e.g. cached_connection("storage_path"), otherwise the full data must fit into RAM. Using TABLE assumes familiarity with R's DBI-based interface.
filename: A logical value indicating whether to include the filename in the table name.
recursive: should we assume recursive path? default TRUE. Set to FALSE if trying to open a single, un-partitioned file.
...: optional additional arguments passed to duckdb_s3_config(). Note these apply after those set by the URI notation and thus may be used to override or provide settings not supported in that format.

Value

A lazy dplyr::tbl object representing the opened dataset backed by a duckdb SQL connection. Most dplyr (and some tidyr) verbs can be used directly on this object, as they can be translated into SQL commands automatically via dbplyr. Generic R commands require using dplyr::collect() on the table, which forces evaluation and reading the resulting data into memory.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
# A remote, hive-partitioned Parquet dataset
base <- paste0("https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/raw/main/",
             "data/parquet-testing/hive-partitioning/union_by_name/")
f1 <- paste0(base, "x=1/f1.parquet")
f2 <- paste0(base, "x=1/f2.parquet")
f3 <- paste0(base, "x=2/f2.parquet")

open_dataset(c(f1,f2,f3), unify_schemas = TRUE)

# Access an S3 database specifying an independently-hosted (MINIO) endpoint
efi <- open_dataset("s3://neon4cast-scores/parquet/aquatics",
                    s3_access_key_id="",
                    s3_endpoint="data.ecoforecast.org")
}