Description
The purpose of this package is to be able to save and load only
the needed variables/columns of a dataframe in special binary files (tar
archives) - which seems to be a lot faster method than loading the whole
binary object (RData files) via load() function, or than loading columns
from SQLite/MySQL databases via SQL commands (see vignettes). Performance
gain on SSD drives is a lot more sensible compared to basic load()
function. The performance improvement gained by loading only the chosen
variables in binary format can be useful in some special cases (e.g. where
merging data tables is not an option and very different datasets are needed
for reporting), but be sure if using this package that you really need
this, as non-standard file formats are used!