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data.table community team<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@NumFOCUS" class="u-url mention">@<span>NumFOCUS</span></a></span> </p><p>Link: <a href="https://numfocus.org/project/data-table" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">numfocus.org/project/data-table</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rstats</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rdatatable" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rdatatable</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>opensource</span></a></p>
data.table community team<p>Huge news from us today: data.table is now a <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@NumFOCUS" class="u-url mention">@<span>NumFOCUS</span></a></span> sponsored project!!!</p><p>🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩</p><p>Details: <a href="https://rdatatable-community.github.io/The-Raft/posts/2025-07-10-numfocus-community_team/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rdatatable-community.github.io</span><span class="invisible">/The-Raft/posts/2025-07-10-numfocus-community_team/</span></a></p>
data.table community team<p>Friends near Madrid, check out this upcoming <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rdatatable" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rdatatable</span></a> event!</p><p>A Zoom option is also available, if you want to join from afar.</p><p><a href="https://www.meetup.com/grupo-de-usuarios-de-r-de-madrid/events/306199926/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">meetup.com/grupo-de-usuarios-d</span><span class="invisible">e-r-de-madrid/events/306199926/</span></a></p><p>(Presentation will be in English.)</p>
data.table community team<p>Check out the latest package to be granted the Seal of Approval: {collapse} by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@sebkrantz" class="u-url mention">@<span>sebkrantz</span></a></span>!</p><p>{collapse} is a partner package, that implements various data transformation and statistical analysis tasks using ultra fast C/C++ implementations.</p><p><a href="https://rdatatable-community.github.io/The-Raft/posts/2024-09-21-seal_of_approval-collapse/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rdatatable-community.github.io</span><span class="invisible">/The-Raft/posts/2024-09-21-seal_of_approval-collapse/</span></a></p>
data.table community team<p>For those still in the market for a sweet data.table bag, a pin, or the elusive giant shiny sticker... these items are available while supplies last at <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kellybodwin" class="u-url mention">@<span>kellybodwin</span></a></span>&#39;s <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/positconf2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>positconf2024</span></a> talk tomorrow (Tues) at 1pm!</p><p>Or, last chance, join us for an unofficial &quot;Birds of a Feather&quot; lunch on Wednesday - we&#39;ll try to stake a table near the stage.</p><p>🦭</p>
data.table community team<p>Today at <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/jsm2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>jsm2024</span></a>, we heard from Anirban Chetia and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@healthandstats" class="u-url mention">@<span>healthandstats</span></a></span> about data.table, in the session on Big In-Memory Data in R. </p><p>Such a great discussion with a very knowlegeable crowd, led by the one and only <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@michaelchirico" class="u-url mention">@<span>michaelchirico</span></a></span> ! </p><p>🦭🦭🦭</p>
data.table community team<p>Today at <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/jsm2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>jsm2024</span></a>, we heard from Anirban Chetia and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@healthandstats" class="u-url mention">@<span>healthandstats</span></a></span> about data.table, in the session on Big In-Memory Data in R. </p><p>Such a great discussion with a very knowlegeable crowd, led by the one and only <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@michaelchirico" class="u-url mention">@<span>michaelchirico</span></a></span> ! </p><p>🦭🦭🦭</p>
data.table community team<p>Wow, that was quick! We love this! 🦭<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/@rbuch/112764065556393156" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@rbuch/1127640</span><span class="invisible">65556393156</span></a></p>
data.table community team<p>Dinner with the data.table fans (old and new) at <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/user2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>user2024</span></a>! Thanks everyone for coming to chat! 🦭</p>
data.table community team<p>&quot;The Past, Present, and Future of data.table&quot; - <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@healthandstats" class="u-url mention">@<span>healthandstats</span></a></span> speaking at <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/UseR2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UseR2024</span></a> !</p><p>Why isn&#39;t Tyson in the picture, you ask?</p><p>Because the main room was filled up right away, and I am in the overflow room! 😱</p><p>So much <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rdatatable" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rdatatable</span></a> love here. 🥰</p>
Elio Campitelli<p>Now giving a tutorial on data.table at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/useR2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>useR2024</span></a> with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@paocorrales" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>paocorrales</span></a></span> <br>🥳<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RStats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RDataTable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RDataTable</span></a></p>
data.table community team<p>🦭 Are you a data.table fan, or maybe just data.table curious?<br />🇦🇹 Are you attending <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/UseR2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UseR2024</span></a>?<br />🎁 Do you like free stuff?</p><p>Come grab dinner with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kellybodwin" class="u-url mention">@<span>kellybodwin</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@healthandstats" class="u-url mention">@<span>healthandstats</span></a></span> at 18:30 on Tuesday at the Tracks &amp; Tastes Cafe (maps.app.goo.gl/xwKJk2vGN9Yvh44M6) - and try out some package contributions!</p>
data.table community team<p>Next stop: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/useR2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>useR2024</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@useR_conf" class="u-url mention">@<span>useR_conf</span></a></span> in Salzburg, Austria 🇦🇹</p><p>👩‍🏫 A full day data.table workshop from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@paocorrales" class="u-url mention">@<span>paocorrales</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@eliocamp" class="u-url mention">@<span>eliocamp</span></a></span> <br />🦭 Talks from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@healthandstats" class="u-url mention">@<span>healthandstats</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kellybodwin" class="u-url mention">@<span>kellybodwin</span></a></span> and Doris Amoakohene about <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rdatatable" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rdatatable</span></a> development and the NSF grant<br />🍸 A community happy hour and dev sprint, with raffle giveaways</p><p>Stay tuned!<br />2/2</p>
data.table community team<p>Kicking off an exciting 2024 Summer Conference Season today with a little teaser lightning talk by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kellybodwin" class="u-url mention">@<span>kellybodwin</span></a></span> at <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SDSS2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SDSS2024</span></a> ⚡</p><p>Slides 👇<br />kbodwin.github.io/2024-SDSS/slides/SDSS_2024_Slides.html</p><p>(At SDSS? Find me at the poster sesh for hex stickers and maybe other goodies!)</p><p>So much more to come.... <br />1/2</p>
data.table community team<p>We&#39;re on LinkedIn now! Join us if that&#39;s your jam:</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/data-table-community/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">linkedin.com/company/data-tabl</span><span class="invisible">e-community/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rdatatable" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rdatatable</span></a><br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/joinALLthesocials" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>joinALLthesocials</span></a></p>
MilesMcBain<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kellybodwin" class="u-url mention">@<span>kellybodwin</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://rstats.me/@mdsumner" class="u-url mention">@<span>mdsumner</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@r_data_table" class="u-url mention">@<span>r_data_table</span></a></span> I contrived a benchmark where it was 10ms vs 6ms single threaded to data.table, dropping to 10ms vs 2.5ms under the default multithreaded setting: <a href="https://gist.github.com/MilesMcBain/3065ba8dddfc8ad353f9f26441dcdbf4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gist.github.com/MilesMcBain/30</span><span class="invisible">65ba8dddfc8ad353f9f26441dcdbf4</span></a></p><p>If you crank up the number of groups to crazy levels (thousands) DT starts to win by more and more in single threaded mode, but the difference to multithreaded drops away.</p><p>But as always, the only benchmark that matters is the one on your data!</p>
R-Podcast (Eric) :pci:<p>Episode 155 of the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://gup.pe/u/rstats" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rstats</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@rweekly" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rweekly</span></a></span> Highlights Podcast has hit the airwaves! <a href="https://podverse.fm/episode/Zmvfnb9oq" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">podverse.fm/episode/Zmvfnb9oq</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <br> <br>🛠️ Patching R to Solve an Exercism Problem <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@jonocarroll" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jonocarroll</span></a></span><br>📊 data.table community survey results (Aljaž Sluga) <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@r_data_table" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>r_data_table</span></a></span><br>💀 Doom plots (Ivan Krylov)</p><p>With a new podcast app like <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://podcastindex.social/@podverse" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>podverse</span></a></span>, you can easily send your hosts a boost to support the show! <a href="https://blog.podverse.fm/support-creators-with-boostagrams-and-streaming-sats-using-podverse-and-alby/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.podverse.fm/support-creat</span><span class="invisible">ors-with-boostagrams-and-streaming-sats-using-podverse-and-alby/</span></a> <br> <br>h/t <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@mike_thomas" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mike_thomas</span></a></span> (and the curator prone to Yak Shaving now from time-to-time)</p><p><a href="https://podcastindex.social/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RStats</span></a> <a href="https://podcastindex.social/tags/DataScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataScience</span></a> <a href="https://podcastindex.social/tags/V4V" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>V4V</span></a></p>
data.table community team<p>Assigning values to columns looks and feels different in {data.table} compared to base R data frames.</p><p>Why, and how does this make {data.table} so much faster? 🤔</p><p>Toby breaks it down for us in the latest Tips &amp; Tricks blog post:</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://rdatatable-community.github.io/The-Raft/posts/2024-02-18-dt_particularities-toby_hocking/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rdatatable-community.github.io</span><span class="invisible">/The-Raft/posts/2024-02-18-dt_particularities-toby_hocking/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rstats</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rdatatable" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rdatatable</span></a></p>
data.table community team<p>Hey friends, remember that data.table Community Survey from a couple months ago? 💭</p><p>📊 The results are in! 📊</p><p>Check it out here👇<br /><a href="https://rdatatable-community.github.io/The-Raft/posts/2024-02-25-survey_2023-aljaz_sluga/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rdatatable-community.github.io</span><span class="invisible">/The-Raft/posts/2024-02-25-survey_2023-aljaz_sluga/</span></a></p><p>Huge thanks to Aljaž Sluga for designing the survey and summarizing the results! 💛 🦭</p>
data.table community team<p>💬 &quot;I would like to use data.table but I prefer a pipeline workflow&quot;</p><p>Is this you? You&#39;re in luck! </p><p>Check out @eliocamp&#39;s guest blog on The Raft about how to pipe in data.table:</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://rdatatable-community.github.io/The-Raft/posts/2024-01-28-piping_data_tables-elio_campitelli/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rdatatable-community.github.io</span><span class="invisible">/The-Raft/posts/2024-01-28-piping_data_tables-elio_campitelli/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rstats</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rdatatable" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rdatatable</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/datascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>datascience</span></a></p>