Chapter 10 Data Processing

10.1 Tabular Data

The recommended package to deal with tabular data I/O is the package data.table.

10.1.1 Read

fread

readLines

10.1.2 Write

fwrite write.table writeLines

10.1.3 Column-Oriented Computation

10.1.4 Row-Oriented Computation

10.1.5 By-Group Operations

10.1.6 Merge

10.1.7 Reshape

10.2 JSON

The recommended package to deal with json I/O is the package jsonlite.

10.3 Databases