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install.packages('data.table')

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1.10.2

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GPL-3 | file LICENSE

Maintainer

Matt Dowle

Last Published

January 31st, 2017

Functions in data.table (1.10.2)

between

Convenience functions for range subsets.
:=

Assignment by reference
as.xts.data.table

Efficient data.table to xts conversion
as.data.table.xts

Efficient xts to as.data.table conversion
address

Address in RAM of a variable
data.table-class

S4 Definition for data.table
chmatch

Faster match of character vectors
copy

Copy an entire object
all.equal

Equality Test Between Two Data Tables
as.data.table

Coerce to data.table
foverlaps

Fast overlap joins
fwrite

Fast CSV writer
fsort

Fast parallel sort
duplicated

Determine Duplicate Rows
datatable.optimize

Optimisations in data.table
dcast.data.table

Fast dcast for data.table
frank

Fast rank
first

First item of an object
fread

Fast and friendly file finagler
data.table-package

Enhanced data.frame
na.omit.data.table

Remove rows with missing values on columns specified
print.data.table

data.table Printing Options
melt.data.table

Fast melt for data.table
last

Last item of an object
patterns

Obtain matching indices corresponding to patterns
like

Convenience function for calling regexpr.
merge

Merge two data.tables
IDateTime

Integer based date class
setDTthreads

Set or get number of threads that data.table should use
J

Creates a Join data table
setNumericRounding

Change or turn off numeric rounding
rowid

Generate unique row ids within each group
setDT

Coerce lists and data.frames to data.table by reference
rleid

Generate run-length type group id
setops

Set operations for data tables
setDF

Coerce a data.table to data.frame by reference
setcolorder

Fast column reordering of a data.table by reference
setattr

Set attributes of objects by reference
rbindlist

Makes one data.table from a list of many
setkey

Create key on a data table
transform.data.table

Data table utilities
test.data.table

Runs a set of tests.
special-symbols

Special symbols
timetaken

Pretty print of time taken
setorder

Fast row reordering of a data.table by reference
shift

Fast lead/lag for vectors and lists
split

Split data.table into chunks in a list
subset.data.table

Subsetting data.tables
shouldPrint

For use by packages that mimic/divert auto printing e.g. IRkernel and knitr
tables

Display all objects of class 'data.table'
tstrsplit

strsplit and transpose the resulting list efficiently
transpose

Efficient transpose of list
truelength

Over-allocation access