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blob

Overview

The goal of blob is to provide a simple S3 class to represent a vector of binary objects, aka blobs. The blob class is a lightweight wrapper around a list of raw vectors, suitable for inclusion in a data frame.

In most cases you will not need to use this package explicitly: it will be used transparently by packages that need to load BLOB columns from databases or binary file formats.

Installation

# The easiest way to get blob is to install the whole tidyverse:
install.packages("tidyverse")

# Alternatively, install just blob:
install.packages("blob")

# Or the the development version from GitHub:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("tidyverse/blob")

Example

To create a blob, use blob(), new_blob() or as_blob():

library(blob)

x1 <- charToRaw("Good morning")
x2 <- as.raw(c(0x48, 0x65, 0x6c, 0x6c, 0x6f))

new_blob(list(x1, x2))
#> <blob[2]>
#> [1] blob[12 B] blob[5 B]
blob(x1, x2)
#> <blob[2]>
#> [1] blob[12 B] blob[5 B]

as_blob(c("Good morning", "Good evening"))
#> <blob[2]>
#> [1] blob[12 B] blob[12 B]

Please note that the ‘blob’ project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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