Probably not news to anyone who works with big data™, but I learned, after additional searches, that using (something like) duckdb as a CSV parser makes sense,

Probably not news to anyone who works with big data™, but I learned, after additional searches, that using (something like) duckdb as a CSV parser makes sense, especially if the alternative is loading the entire thing to memory with (something like) base R. This was informative for me: https://hbs-rcs.github.io/large_data_in_R/ https://hbs-rcs.github.io/large_data_in_R/.