Alternatively there is also a family of environment variables to control use of
the Altrep framework. These can then be set in your .Renviron file, e.g.
with usethis::edit_r_environ(). For versions of R where the Altrep
framework is unavailable (R < 3.5.0) they are automatically turned off and
the variables have no effect. The variables can take one of true, false,
TRUE, FALSE, 1, or 0.
There are also individual variables for each type. Currently only
VROOM_USE_ALTREP_CHR defaults to true.
VROOM_USE_ALTREP_CHR
VROOM_USE_ALTREP_FCT
VROOM_USE_ALTREP_INT
VROOM_USE_ALTREP_BIG_INT
VROOM_USE_ALTREP_DBL
VROOM_USE_ALTREP_NUM
VROOM_USE_ALTREP_LGL
VROOM_USE_ALTREP_DTTM
VROOM_USE_ALTREP_DATE
VROOM_USE_ALTREP_TIME