What is a Feather File?
Feather is a fast and lightweight file format designed for efficient data storage and interchange between programming languages. It is based on the Apache Arrow specification, which provides a standardized data format for in-memory and disk-based data processing across various programming languages. Feather is a binary file format that has been designed to store data in a columnar layout, and it is an excellent choice for quickly exchanging data between various computing environments.
The Feather package provides functions that are used to read and write feather files and retrieve the metadata of the feather files.
How to read column names and metadata from feather files in R arrow?
To access column names and metadata from feather files in R programming, we use the R Arrow package to load the feather file into a data frame. After loading the feather file, we can retrieve the column names and metadata attributes by using the Feather package.