Export Database Tables to 'Parquet' R package db2pq version 0.0.4 Tools for exporting 'PostgreSQL' tables to 'Parquet' files, with support for chunked writes, column type overrides, and timezone-aware timestamp handling. Includes functions for maintaining a local 'Parquet' data library sourced from 'WRDS' (Wharton Research Data Services), with update-checking based on table metadata, and archive management utilities for versioning local data files. See Gow and Ding (2024) "Empirical Research in Accounting: Tools and Methods" <doi:10.1201/9781003456230>. Software Depends: R (>= 4.1.0) Imports: arrow, DBI, keyring, RPostgres, tibble, tools, wrds Suggests: adbcpostgresql, adbcdrivermanager, adbi, duckdb, dplyr, dbplyr, ggplot2, knitr, nanoarrow, processx, quarto, rstudioapi, testthat (>= 3.0.0) Ian D. Gow <iandgow@gmail.com> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Ian D. Gow [aut, cre] MIT + file LICENSE (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=db2pq/LICENSE) 2026-06-02 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=db2pq doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.db2pq