A Buffer is an object containing a pointer to a piece of contiguous memory with a particular size.
buffer(x)
| x | R object. Only raw, numeric and integer vectors are currently supported |
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an instance of Buffer that borrows memory from x
buffer() lets you create an arrow::Buffer from an R object
$is_mutable : is this buffer mutable?
$ZeroPadding() : zero bytes in padding, i.e. bytes between size and capacity
$size : size in memory, in bytes
$capacity: possible capacity, in bytes
my_buffer <- buffer(c(1, 2, 3, 4)) my_buffer$is_mutable #> [1] TRUE my_buffer$ZeroPadding() my_buffer$size #> [1] 32 my_buffer$capacity #> [1] 32