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compact

Compact a ff vector or ffdf data frame

Compact takes a ff vector and tries to use the smallest binary data type for this vector.

## S3 method for class 'ff'
compact(x, use.na = TRUE, ...)

`x`	`ff` or `ffdf` object
`use.na`	`logical` if TRUE the resulting ff vector can contain NA, otherwise this is not checked
`...`	other parameters

compact cloned ff vector, or original if no compacting can be done

Basic Statistical Functions for Package 'ff'

v0.13.3

GPL-3

Authors

Edwin de Jonge, Jan Wijffels, Jan van der Laan

Initial release