nanoparquet 0.5.1

• write_parquet() now supports writing to the standard output stream, via file = ":stdout:". Example usage from the command line, with R or Rscript:

  R -s -e 'nanoparquet::write_parquet(mtcars, ":stdout:")' > mtcars.parquet
  Rscript --quiet -e 'nanoparquet::write_parquet(mtcars, ":stdout:")' > mtcars.parquet

• nanoparquet now supports bit64::integer64 columns (#153):

  • write_parquet() now writes bit64::integer64 columns to INT64 Parquet columns. Similarly, infer_parquet_schema() also supports bit64::integer64 columns.

  • read_parquet() and read_parquet_schema() now have a read_int64_type option in parquet_options() to control how INT64 columns are read. Set it to "integer64" or "bit64::integer64" to read them as bit64::integer64 vectors instead of the default "double".

• read_parquet() now returns BYTE_ARRAY and FIXED_LEN_BYTE_ARRAY columns (without a string/UUID/decimal annotation) as blob::blob objects instead of plain lists of raw vectors. write_parquet() now also accepts blob::blob columns (#115).

• read_parquet() can now read empty data frames (zero rows) written by the arrow package (#160).

• read_parquet() can now read Parquet files that have zero-row row groups without dictionary pages (#162).

nanoparquet 0.5.0

• append_parquet() now gives a clear error when appending data with missing values (NA) to a column that was written as REQUIRED (i.e. non-nullable) (#146).

• append_parquet() now creates a new file if file does not exist (#155).

• read_parquet() now correctly reads DECIMAL values stored as FIXED_LEN_BYTE_ARRAY with a byte length greater than 8 (e.g. 128-bit decimals) (#148).

• write_parquet() now sets the definition_level_encoding and repetition_level_encoding fields in data page headers to RLE for all columns, fixing an interoperability issue with the Apache Parquet Java library (#98).

• write_parquet() now writes the ARROW:schema metadata with correct flatbuffer alignment, fixing an interoperability issue with the Rust arrow-rs parquet reader (#152).

• read_parquet() now reads logical (BOOLEAN) columns correctly when the column spans multiple data pages (#142).

• write_parquet() now writes files larger than 4 GB correctly. File offsets and column sizes were stored as 32-bit integers and overflowed, producing corrupt Parquet files that could not be read back (#143).

• write_parquet() now handles data frames with zero rows correctly, including zero-column data frames (#138).

• read_parquet() no longer crashes when reading a Parquet file with zero columns (#138).

• nanoparquet now supports Parquet LIST columns:

  • write_parquet() can write R list columns whose elements are integer, double, or character vectors. NULL entries encode a missing list, NA values inside an element vector encode a missing element, and zero-length vectors encode an empty list.

  • read_parquet() can read LIST columns with any supported scalar element type. All four combinations of optional/required outer list and optional/required element are supported, for both data page version 1 and version 2.

  • parquet_schema() accepts list("LIST", element = <type>) to specify a LIST column type explicitly.

  • infer_parquet_schema() and read_parquet_schema() report list columns with r_type list(...), e.g. list(double) or list(list(characer)), etc.

  • Dictionary encoding (RLE_DICTIONARY) is supported for LIST columns.

nanoparquet 0.4.3

• No user visible changes.

nanoparquet 0.4.2

• write_parquet() now does not fail when writing files with a zero-length first page (#122).

• read_parquet() can now read Parquet files that do not contain the dictionary page offset in their metadata. Polars creates such files (#132).

nanoparquet 0.4.1

• write_parquet() now correctly converts double Date columns to integer columns (@eitsupi, #116).

• read_parquet() now correctly reads FLOAT columns from files with multiple row groups.

• read_parquet() now correctly reads Parquet files that have column chunks with both dictionary encoded and not dictionary encoded pages (#110).

nanoparquet 0.4.0

• API changes:

  • parquet_schema() is now called read_parquet_schema(). The new parquet_schema() function falls back to read_parquet_schema() if it is called with a single string argument, with a warning.

  • parquet_info() is now called read_parquet_info(). parquet_info( still works for now, with a warning.

  • parquet_metadata() is now called read_parquet_metadata(). parquet_metadata() still works, with a warning.

  • parquet_column_types() is now deprecated, and issues a warning. Use read_parquet_schema() or the new infer_parquet_schema() function instead.

• Other improvements:

  • The new parquet_schema() function creates a Parquet schema from scratch. You can use this schema as the new schema argument of write_parquet(), to specify how the columns of a data frame should be mapped to Parquet types.

  • New append_parquet() function to append a data frame to an existing Parquet file.

  • New col_select argument for read_parquet() to read a subset of columns from a Parquet file.

  • write_parquet() can now write multiple row groups. By default it puts at most 10 million rows into a single row group. You can choose the row groups manually with the row_groups argument.

  • write_parquet() now writes minimum and maximum values per row group for most types. See ?parquet_options() for turning this off. It also writes out the number of non-missing values.

  • Newly supported type conversions in write_parquet() via the schema argument:

    • integer to INT64,
    • integer to INT96,
    • double to INT96,
    • double to FLOAT,
    • character to BYTE_ARRAY,
    • character to FIXED_LEN_BYTE_ARRAY,
    • character to ENUM,
    • factor to ENUM.
    • integer to DECIMAL, INT32,
    • integer to DECIMAL, INT64,
    • double to DECIMAL, INT32,
    • double to DECIMAL, INT64,
    • integer to INT(8, *), INT(16, *), INT(32, signed),
    • double to INT(*, *),
    • character to UUID,
    • double to FLOAT16,
    • list of raw vectors to BYTE_ARRAY,
    • list of raw vectors to FIXED_LEN_BYTE_ARRAY.

• write_parquet() can now write version 2 data pages. The default is still version 1, but it might change in the future.

• write_parquet(file = ":raw:") now works correctly for larger data frames (#77).

• New compression_level option to select the compression level manually. See ?parquet_options for details. (#91).

• read_parquet() can now read from an R connection (#71).

• read_parquet() now reads DECIMAL values correctly from INT32 and INT64 columns if their scale is not zero.

• read_parquet() now reads JSON columns as character vectors, as documented.

• read_parquet() now reads the FLOAT16 logical type as a real (double) vector.

• The class argument of parquet_options() and the nanoparquet.class option now work again (#104).

nanoparquet 0.3.1

• This version fixes a write_parquet() crash (#73).

nanoparquet 0.3.0

• read_parquet() type mapping changes:

  • The STRING logical type and the UTF8 converted type are still read as a character vector, but BYTE_ARRAY types without a converted or logical types are not any more, and are read as a list of raw vectors. Missing values are indicated as NULL values.
  • The DECIMAL converted type is read as a REALSXP now, even if its type is FIXED_LEN_BYTE_ARRAY. (Not just if it is BYTE_ARRAY).
  • The UUID logical type is now read as a character vector, formatted as 00112233-4455-6677-8899-aabbccddeeff.
  • BYTE_ARRAY and FIXED_LEN_BYTE_ARRAY types without logical or converted types; or with unsupported ones: FLOAT16, INTERVAL; are now read into a list of raw vectors. Missing values are denoted by NULL.

• write_parquet() now automatically uses dictionary encoding for columns that have many repeated values. Only the first 10k rows are used to decide if dictionary will be used or not. Similarly, logical columns are written in RLE encoding if they contain runs of repeated values. NA values are ignored when selecting the encoding (#18).

• write_parquet() can now write a data frame to a memory buffer, returned as a raw vector, if the special ":raw:" filename is used (#31).

• read_parquet() can now read Parquet files with V2 data pages (#37).

• Both read_parquet() and write_parquet() now support GZIP and ZSTD compressed Parquet files.

• read_parquet() now supports the RLE encoding for BOOLEAN columns and also supports the DELTA_BINARY_PACKED, DELTA_LENGTH_BYTE_ARRAY, DELTA_BYTE_ARRAY and BYTE_STREAM_SPLIT encodings.

• The parquet_columns() function is now called parquet_column_types() and it can now map the column types of a data frame to Parquet types.

• parquet_info(), parquet_metadata() and parquet_column_types() now work if the created_by metadata field is unset.

• New parquet_options() function that you can use to set nanoparquet options for a single read_parquet() or write_parquet() call.

nanoparquet 0.2.0

• First release on CRAN. It contains the Parquet reader from https://github.com/hannes/miniparquet, a Parquet writer, functions to read Parquet metadata, and many improvements.