Open a Zarr store — open

This function opens a Zarr object, connected to a store located on the local file system or on a remote server using the HTTP protocol. The Zarr object can be either v.2 or v.3.

Usage

open_zarr(location, read_only = FALSE)

Arguments

location: Character string that indicates a location on a file system or a HTTP server where the Zarr store is to be found. The character string may contain UTF-8 characters and/or use a file URI format.
read_only: Optional. Logical that indicates if the store is to be opened in read-only mode. Default is FALSE for a local file system store, TRUE otherwise.

Value

A zarr object.

Examples

fn <- system.file("extdata", "africa.zarr", package = "zarr")
africa <- open_zarr(fn)
africa
#> <Zarr>
#> Version   : 3 
#> Store     : Local file system store 
#> Location  : /home/runner/work/_temp/Library/zarr/extdata/africa.zarr 
#> Arrays    : 1 
#> Total size: 540.36 KB 
#> Attributes:
#>  name        value                                             
#>  title       CRU TS4.08 Mean Temperature                       
#>  institution Data held at British Atmospheric Data Centre, R...
#>  source      Test data for the R zarr package                  
#>  comment     Do not use this data for any practical purpose ...
#>  contact     https://github.com/R-CF/zarr/issues