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New connection type ‘zstdfile’ for files compressed by ‘zstd’ if R was built with such support. ‘file()’ and ‘gzfile()’ can automagically read such files.
‘memCompress()’ and ‘memDecompress()’ have options to use ‘zstd’ compression if R was built with support for it.