data-science etc.
parquet -> data.table
= dir(pattern = ".parquet")
files = rbindlist(lapply(files, arrow::read_parquet))
dat # dat = rbindlist(lapply(files, arrow::read_parquet, col_select=1:10))
write_parquet(dat, sink = "file.parquet")
// https://stata2r.github.io/data_table/#read-and-write-parquet
also: see setDT