dplyr abstracts away so much bullshit... they're not even playing the same sport. Pandas brought R-style data.frames to Python; dplyr makes databases, data.tab

dplyr abstracts away so much bullshit... they're not even playing the same sport. Pandas brought R-style data.frames to Python; dplyr makes databases, data.tables, etc. all behave the same. Out-of-memory, in-memory, all the abstractions just work the same. Oh and it's fast as shit (the tight loops are in C++).