The Community Team, alongside a group of regular data.table contributors, is very please to announce a new Seal of Approval program!

Our goal is to collect packages that significantly support, extend, or rely on data.table. We identify four broad categories of “sister” packages:

• Extension packages: These add to the internal functionality of data.table objects or functions.

• Application packages: These use data.table, often “under the hood” to efficiently accomplish a particular task or analysis.

• Bridge package: These translate data.table syntax to different syntax, or provides helper functions for transitioning between data.table and another object type.

• Partner package: These are not necessarily directly connected to data.table, but they conciously and deliberately are designed to follow the core philosophies of data.table.

Approved packages may be found on the data.table GitHub; and will also appear on this blog.

To submit a package for the Seal, please Pull Request the Raft GitHub, making sure to follow all instructions carefully in the PR template.

(You need not be the author or maintainer of a package to submit it for approval, but you must notify the current maintainer if you do so.)

Oh, and if your package is approved – shoot us an email at [email protected] and we’ll send you a special, limited-edition Seal of Approval sticker!