I just tried it in R. The relevant package seems to be "arrow", so I did install.packages("arrow") and then I did ?read_parquet to get an example.

I just tried it in R. The relevant package seems to be "arrow", so I did install.packages("arrow") and then I did ?read_parquet to get an example. I tried the example, and got the error message as follows. This sort of error is really quite uncommon in R. So my answer to the "with little effort" is "no", at least for R. > tf<-tempfile() > write_parquet(mtcars, tf) Error in parquet___WriterProperties___Builder__create() : Cannot call parquet___WriterProperties___Builder__create(). See https://arrow.apache.org/docs/r/articles/install.html for help installing Arrow C++ libraries.