Twenty+ years of reading data into R

For the last 24 years, Colin has been reading data into R.

It all started with the humble scan() function, and over the last two decades, he's somehow moved to using fancy new-fangled file formats, such as parquet and arrow.

On top of that, he's now starting to use aquatic databases, duckdb, for analytics. In this talk, He'll cover a variety of methods for importing data and highlight the good & bad.