Support for Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS)

[blakedubois]

Data scientists currently use httr to make rest calls to ADLS. A higher level SDK or R package would be very beneficial.

[andrie]

Please make a prioritized list of the ask here. Which functions of ADLS do you want to exposed in this package? Please also provide REST API references, if possible.

[blakedubois]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-lake-store/data-lake-store-get-started-rest-api

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