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 examples of similar software are duckdb and polars, which each provide in-m...

French translation project 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, Vincent Rocher, Vincent Runge, and Elise Maigné...

nc nc hex sticker Maintainer: Toby Dylan Hocking (toby.hocking@r-project.org) User-friendly functions for extracting a data table (row for each match, column for each group) from non-tabular text data using regular expressions, and for ...

I am proud to report that today, the first major new data.table features in several years have been released to CRAN! This new release, version 1.15.0, is remarkable because it is the first new feature release using the new community governance, ...

I am proud to report that today, the first major new data.table features in several years have been released to CRAN! This new release, version 1.15.0, is remarkable because it is the first new feature release using the new community governance,...

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 translations. Tutorial about data.table I presented a tutorial on the first day of...

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 translations. Tutorial about data.table I presented a tutorial on the first day o...