ffbase (version 0.13.3)

compact: Compact a ff vector or ffdf data frame

Description

Compact takes a ff vector and tries to use the smallest binary data type for this vector.

Usage

# S3 method for ff
compact(x, use.na = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

x

ff or ffdf object

use.na

logical if TRUE the resulting ff vector can contain NA, otherwise this is not checked

...

other parameters

Value

compact cloned ff vector, or original if no compacting can be done