I’ve worked with various alternate file handlers in python before and wanted to explore the options in R. I was pleasantly surprised to find handlers prebuilt for tasks like compressing data. In addition, a pipe function is available to allow you to use less common commands on your file, like gpg for encryption.
I put together a quick video demo of how to use these functions, and it’s available on youtube:
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