pola-rs/r-polars

It's possible to read from pipe?

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#273 opened on Jun 29, 2023

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Description

I want to read data from pipe is it possible.like this

readLines(pipe("echo a,b"))
# for example
pl$lazy_csv_reader(pipe("echo a,b"))

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Research direction
Explore if Polars can read from connections or streams instead of file paths. Check Python Polars for similar functionality (e.g., pl.read csv with io.StringIO) and see if it can be adapted to R's pipe connection.
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r
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backend
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3
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Clear
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RPolars
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