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How does R handle high-performance columnar formats like Arrow and Parquet?

Updated May 24, 2026

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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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