flatten

Flatten a character vector of individual JSON lines into a <code>data.table</code>

Streaming 'JSON' ('ndjson') has one 'JSON' record per-line
and many modern 'ndjson' files contain large numbers of records.
These constructs may not be columnar in nature, but it is often
useful to read in these files and "flatten" the structure out to
enable working with the data in an R 'data.frame'-like context.
Functions are provided that make it possible to read in plain
'ndjson' files or compressed ('gz') 'ndjson' files and either
validate the format of the records or create "flat" 'data.table'
structures from them.

Bob Rudis

ndjson

Wicked-Fast Streaming 'JSON' ('ndjson') Reader

Niels Lohmann

Deepak Bandyopadhyay

Lutz Kettner

Neal Fultz

Maarten Demeyer

flatten function

<dl><dt>x</dt>
<dd>character vector of individual JSON lines to flatten</dd>
<dt>cls</dt>
<dd>the package uses <code><a href="https://Rdatatable.gitlab.io/data.table/reference/rbindlist.html">data.table::rbindlist</a></code> for speed but
that's not always the best return type for everyone, so you have
option of keeping it a <code>data.table</code> or converting it to a <code>tbl</code></dd></dl>

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Flatten a character vector of individual JSON lines into a data.table — flatten

<dl>

<dt>x</dt>
<dd>character vector of individual JSON lines to flatten</dd>


<dt>cls</dt>
<dd>the package uses <code><a href='https://Rdatatable.gitlab.io/data.table/reference/rbindlist.html'>data.table::rbindlist</a></code> for speed but
that's not always the best return type for everyone, so you have
option of keeping it a <code>data.table</code> or converting it to a <code>tbl</code></dd>

</dl>

flatten: Flatten a character vector of individual JSON lines into a `data.table`

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