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Using data.table

Using data.table

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Using data.table

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- [Instructor] One of the great things about R being open-source is, people can develop different things for it. And you get a lot of different perspectives on how to work on R. And well, the tidy verse approach is very common in one I use throughout this course. There are other parallel universes. One of them is adaptation of R for working with large data sets. And Data Table is one of the most common ways of doing this. So I'm going to step out of the tidy verse for just a moment, and give you a very quick demonstration of how data table can be used to do some very simple things with large data sets. Now I'm going to come down here and I'm going to load a few packages, including data.table, which is the one that makes it possible. And I'm also going to use HTTR because we're going to be bringing in some data from a website, so you're going to need a live web connection while you do this. I'm going to be using…

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