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Feather for R

Feather is file format designed for efficient on-disk serialisation of data frames that can be shared across programming languages (e.g. Python and R).

library(feather)
write_feather(mtcars, "mtcars.feather")
mtcars2 <- read_feather("mtcars.feather")

Installation

Install the released version from CRAN:

# install.packages("feather")

Or the development version from GitHub:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("wesm/feather/R")

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install.packages('feather')

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0.4.0

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Apache License 2.0

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Last Published

December 6th, 2025

Functions in feather (0.4.0)

read_feather

Read and write feather files.
feather_example

Get path to feather example files
feather

Access a feather store like a data frame