data.table

Need for Processing Speed: data.table

The first time I discovered data.table it felt like magic. I was waiting on a process that was projected to take the better part of an afternoon. In the meantime, I followed the data.table tutorial, rewrote my code using the data.table structure, and fully executed said code, all while the data.frame equivalent was wheezing along. In the last year, data.table has gotten even faster. data.table’s Automatic Indexing For the uninitiated, data.

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