Possible to use it without, keeping it as a data frame, but I've been using data tables for the past few months and always get my syntax wrong with data frames.

See how to join two data sets by one or more common columns using base R’s merge function, dplyr join functions, and the speedy data.table package. R has a number of quick, elegant ways to join data ...

Make your R data.table code more efficient and elegant with these special symbols and operators. Plus, learn about the new fcase() function R data.table code becomes more efficient — and elegant — ...

The table below shows my favorite go-to R packages for data import, wrangling, visualization and analysis — plus a few miscellaneous tasks tossed in. The package names in the table are clickable if ...