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Microbenchmark to compare reading times for a .csv file in R
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csv_reading_times.R
library(microbenchmark)
library(data.table)
library(readr)
library(vroom)
library(iotools)
myfile <- 'mypath.csv'
microbenchmark(read.csv(myfile),
data.table::fread(myfile),
readr::read_csv(myfile),
vroom::vroom(myfile),
iotools::read.csv.raw(myfile),
times = 10L
)
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Results for a 50MB .csv file on my machine:

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