The Raft

Raft (n): A group or herd of sea lions. A place for announcements, tutorials, and musings about the {data.table} package and its community.

Comparing data.table reshape to duckdb and polars

tips
tutorials
developer
benchmarks
One element of the NSF POSE grant for data.table is to create benchmarks which can inform users about when data.table could be more performant than similar software. Two…
Oct 17, 2024
Toby Dylan Hocking

Visualizing performance regression of data.table with atime

performance
testing
developer
Since August 2023, I have been working on performance testing, which could be useful for expanding the open-source ecosystem around data.table package in R. This could…
Oct 10, 2024
Doris Afriyie Amoakohene

Seal of Approval: mlr3

seal of approval
application package
Author(s): Michel Lang, Bernd Bischl, Jakob Richter, Patrick Schratz, Martin Binder, Florian Pfisterer, Raphael Sonabend, Marc Becker, Sebastian Fischer
Oct 1, 2024
Maximilian Mücke

Seal of Approval: collapse

seal of approval
partner package
Author(s): Sebastian Krantz
Sep 21, 2024
Sebastian Krantz

Newly awarded translation projects

announcements
grant
translation
We are pleased to fund a French translation project, led by Philippe Grosjean, who is also the leader of the base R French translation. Co-authors include Christian Wia…
Aug 20, 2024
Toby Dylan Hocking

Seal of Approval: tidyfast

seal of approval
bridge package
Author(s): Tyson S. Barrett, Mark Fairbanks, Ivan Leung, Indrajeet Patil
Aug 1, 2024
Tyson S. Barrett

Seal of Approval: nc

seal of approval
extension package
Maintainer: Toby Dylan Hocking (toby.hocking@r-project.org)
Aug 1, 2024
Toby Dylan Hocking

Seal of Approval: dtplyr

seal of approval
bridge package
Author(s): Hadley Wickham, Maximilian Girlich, Mark Fairbanks, Ryan Dickerson, Posit Software PBC
Aug 1, 2024
Kelly Bodwin

Announcement: The ‘Seal of Approval’

announcements
grant
community
seal of approval
The Community Team, alongside a group of regular data.table contributors, is very pleased to announce a new Seal of Approval program!
Jul 31, 2024
Kelly Bodwin

Announcement: Paola Corrales, data.table Ambassador

announcements
grant
ambassadors
travel
Paola is a professor teaching Data Science at Guillermo Brown University in Argentina, a developer of R packages and teaching materials, and a leader of the LatinR…
Jun 12, 2024
Community Team

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 to create more documentation and testing infrastructure, in order to help expand the data.table ecosystem. This…
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

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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

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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