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Two Roads Diverged
opinion
Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Jun 4, 2024
Kelly Bodwin
Testing infrastructure for data.table
grant
testing
developer
One major element of the NSF POSE grant for
data.table
is create more documentation and testing infrastructure, in order to help expand the
data.table
ecosystem. This blog…
Mar 10, 2024
Toby Hocking
Community interviews about {data.table}
community
grant
One stipulation of NSF POSE funded projects like this one was to conduct several interviews under NSF’s I-CORPS program (Winter 2024 Cohort), to gather information as to how
…
Mar 6, 2024
Anirban Chetia
Results of the 2023 survey
community
guest post
governance
Thanks to everyone who helped create, shared, or filled out the first data.table survey! The survey was officially open between October 17 and December 1 and it received
391
…
Feb 25, 2024
Aljaž Sluga
Column assignment and reference semantics in {data.table}
tips
tutorials
developer
The goal of this blog post is to explain some similarities and differences between the base R
data.frame
object type, and the
data.table
object type. We will focus on…
Feb 18, 2024
Toby Hocking
The Benefits of
data.table
Syntax
tips
tutorials
documentation
Among the many reasons to use
data.table
in your code (which includes the more common answers of speed, memory efficiency, etc.) is the
syntax
. The syntax is
Feb 5, 2024
Tyson Barrett
New governance, release with new features
governance
releases
I am proud to report that today, the first major new
data.table
features in several years have been released to CRAN!
Jan 30, 2024
Toby Dylan Hocking
Piping data.tables
tips
tutorials
documentation
guest post
Like a devoted plumber, modern R loves pipes. The magrittr pipe has a long history and it’s fair share of detractors, but with the implementation of the native pipe operator …
Jan 28, 2024
Elio Campitelli
Announcement: Jan Gorecki, data.table Ambassador
announcements
grant
ambassadors
Jan is a natural choice for an Ambassador, due to his many years of fantastic contribution to the
data.table
package. You can find his great work in open-source development…
Jan 14, 2024
Kelly Bodwin
Announcement: Jan Gorecki, data.table Ambassador
announcements
grant
ambassadors
Jan is a natural choice for an Ambassador, due to his many years of fantastic contribution to the
data.table
package. You can find his great work in open-source development…
Jan 14, 2024
Kelly Bodwin
Summary of LatinR conference
conferences
Last month, I (Toby) went to the LatinR conference in Montevideo, Uruguay. I had two goals: to teach about
data.table
in a tutorial, and to find people to work on…
Nov 19, 2023
Toby Dylan Hocking
Announcement: The data.table Ambassadors Travel Grant
announcements
grant
funding opportunity
We on the community team are very excited to announce another major funding opportunity!
Nov 1, 2023
Kelly Bodwin
Announcement: data.table translation projects
announcements
grant
funding opportunity
In 2023-2025, National Science Foundation (NSF) has provided funds to support the project “Expanding the data.table ecosystem for efficient big data manipulation in R.” One…
Oct 17, 2023
Welcome to the {data.table} ecosystem project!
An NSF-POSE funded venture.
announcements
grant
Hi! My name is Toby Dylan Hocking, and I have been using R since 2003, which means 20 years, can you believe it?
Oct 15, 2023
Toby Hocking
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