Tutorial: Fast and efficient data manipulation with data.table

At the uRos2018 conference you will get a chance to become more familiar with the data.table-package.

The data.table package is known for its speed and memory efficiency. It also has a bit of a learning curve. In this task oriented and hand-on tutorial you will get a head start with data.table and learn the beauty of its syntax. After each explanation, you will be asked to solve a few exercises so you can internalize each concept.

• Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2018
• Time: 9:00 - 12:30 (with 30 minute break)
• Location: Idenburgzaal (at CBS, Henri Faasdreef 312, The Hague, The Netherlands)

Contents:

• Slides (as pdf)
• Exercise files (as R script files)

Background knowledge:

• Participants are expected to be able to solve (simple) data manipulation tasks with base R and/or tidyverse-packages. Familiarity with SQL is useful, but not necessary.

Requirements:

• Participants should bring their own laptops with a recent version of R (3.4+) and a recent version of data.table (1.11.4)

Preperation instructions:

• Download the zip-file of this repository (download link);
• unzip it in a folder on your laptop;
• Make a new Project (upper right corner of Rstudio), choose "Existing folder" and select the folder in which the contents were unzipped;
• Make sure you have the project open when we start with the tutorial.