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How does R handle high-performance columnar formats like Arrow and Parquet?
Updated May 24, 2026
Short answer
Arrow and Parquet enable efficient columnar storage and zero-copy analytics in R.
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Columnar formats store data by column, improving compression and query performance. Arrow enables shared memory representation across languages.
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