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Improvement
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Status: Resolved
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Minor
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Resolution: Fixed
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Description
I been using this function enough that I wonder if a) would be useful in the package and b) whether this is something you think is worth working on. The basic problem is that if you have a hierarchical file structure that accommodates using open_dataset, it is definitely useful to know the amount of data you are dealing with. My idea is that 'FileSystemDataset' would have dim, nrow and ncol methods. Here is how I've been using it:
library(arrow) x <- open_dataset("data/rivers-data/", partitioning = c("prov", "month")) dim_arrow <- function(x) { rows <- sum(purrr::map_dbl(x$files, ~ParquetFileReader$create(.x)$ReadTable()$num_rows)) cols <- x$schema$num_fields c(rows, cols) } dim_arrow(x) #> [1] 426929 7
Ideally this would work on arrow_dplyr_query objects as well but I haven't quite figured out how that filters based on the partitioning variables.
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