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"Tidyverse was fine in school. It doesn't pass muster in production...." This is a bit disrespectful. "Data.table syntax is simpler, easier to read, easier to
by hooloovoo_zoo 7y ago
"Tidyverse was fine in school. It doesn't pass muster in production...."
This is a bit disrespectful.
"Data.table syntax is simpler, easier to read, easier to teach..."
This is rather arbitrary, and I don't think it's the majority view of the community, whatever the advantages of data.table.
"...orders of magnitude faster"
This is an exaggeration in most real cases, even according to the benchmarks pointed to by data.table.[1]
[1] https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/ https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/