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data.table (version 1.9.4)

Extension of data.frame

Description

Fast aggregation of large data (e.g. 100GB in RAM), fast ordered joins, fast add/modify/delete of columns by group using no copies at all, list columns and a fast file reader (fread). Offers a natural and flexible syntax, for faster development.

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install.packages('data.table')

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1.9.4

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GPL (>= 2)

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Maintainer

M Dowle

Last Published

October 2nd, 2014

Functions in data.table (1.9.4)

duplicated

Determine Duplicate Rows
between

Convenience function for range subset logic.
merge

Merge Two Data Tables
IDateTime

Integer based date class
J

Creates a Join data table
tables

Display all objects of class 'data.table'
copy

Copy an entire object
setNumericRounding

Change or turn off numeric rounding
timetaken

Pretty print of time taken
address

Address in RAM of a variable
rbindlist

Makes one data.table from a list of many
transform.data.table

Data table utilities
test.data.table

Runs a set of tests.
data.table-package

Enhanced data.frame
data.table-class

S4 Definition for data.table
setDF

Convert a data.table to data.frame by reference
all.equal

Equality Test Between Two Data Tables
setorder

Fast reordering of a data.table by reference
fread

Fast and friendly file finagler
chmatch

Faster match of character vectors
last

Last item of an object
foverlaps

Fast overlap joins
setkey

Create key on a data table
setDT

Convert lists and data.frames to data.table by reference
melt.data.table

Fast melt for data.table
:=

Assignment by reference
subset.data.table

Subsetting data.tables
dcast.data.table

Fast dcast for data.table
truelength

Over-allocation access
setattr

Set attributes to objects by reference
like

Convenience function for calling regexpr.