R: Compact a ff vector or ffdf data frame

compact {ffbase} | R Documentation

## 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 class '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

[Package ffbase version 0.13.1 Index]