4 engineers on Hacker News describe using data.table first-hand: 3 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Yes, Julia has a better data frame object; that's why we use data.tables().”
endorse · production · scottlocklin · 2020-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“speed of data.table, RStudio IDE and ease of package management in R makes R an obvious choice for us”
endorse · production · meztez · 2019-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“One of the reason we use data.table is that it reduces the depencies when building custom images and its stability has been better than the tidyverse in the past.”
endorse · production · meztez · 2019-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use rocker docker image with xgboost and plumber, data.table to do pre prediction data wrangling.”
neutral · production · meztez · 2019-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?