December 2018
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Feather is a binary file format that was specially designed for storing data frames. It is fast, lightweight, and language-agnostic. The project was initially started in order to make it possible to exchange data frames between R and Python. Soon, other languages added support for it, including Julia.
Support for Feather files does not come out of the box, but is made available through the homonymous package. Let's go ahead and add it and then bring it into scope:
pkg> add Feather
julia> using Feather
Now, saving our DataFrame is just a matter of calling Feather.write:
julia> Feather.write("test_data.feather", test_data)
Next, let's try the reverse operation and load back our Feather file. We'll use the counterpart ...
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