Optional connection argument to compress_fst

[wlandau]

Writing directly to a connection could help conserve memory. Suggested at richfitz/storr#111 (comment).

[MarcusKlik]

Hi @wlandau, great, thanks for submitting!

We could go a little further and adapt compress_fst() to:

compress_fst(con_in, con_out = NULL, compressor = "ZSTD", compression = 0, hash = FALSE)

So, it would also accept a connection as the input (con_in) and/or the output (con_out).

That makes the function much more flexible. For example, with a connection selected for the input and for the output, a file can be compressed with very little RAM overhead.

When a raw vector is selected for the input and a connection for the output, we get to your scenario, where the compressed stream is directly written to disk...

[wlandau]

Nice! An optional output connection would certainly enhance versatility.