Support for compression libraries depends on the build-time settings of the Arrow C++ library. This function lets you know which are available for use.
codec_is_available(type)A string, one of "uncompressed", "snappy", "gzip", "brotli", "zstd", "lz4", "lzo", or "bz2", case insensitive.
Logical: is type available?
codec_is_available("gzip")
#> [1] TRUE