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data.table
Toby Dylan Hocking edited this page Sep 5, 2025
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The data.table package is an invaluable tool for data analysis and manipulation.
data.table is one of the most widely used R packages.
Find one or more students to fix/close some of the hundreds of outstanding issues.
Maybe would be good to start with the issues labeled as beginner-task.
It would be easier for me if a student approached and said something like :
- “I want to do some serious C at low level”. I could then propose something there.
- “I want to write documentation/vignette/whitepaper”. Then I could suggest writing about data.table code that hasn’t been written about before.
- “I want to close 100 issues, one per day”. Then maybe I could pick the ones where that might be possible.
- “I want to work on performance testing / benchmarking”
- “I want to work on performance testing/ using atime for benchmarking”. I will teach on how to use atime to check if reported data.table issues have been fixed.
Test is to find an issue labeled as beginner-task,
- try to reproduce on your own computer, and report your results on the issue (were you able to reproduce? or not?)
- create a PR which would close that issue.
When you have finished at least one test, please add a link to it on this page, then contact the following mentors:
- Toby Dylan Hocking @tdhock
- Anirban Chetia @Anirban166
- Doris Amoakohene @DorisAmoakohene
- Joshua Wu @joshhwuu
Potential contributor test results (to edit)
- Contributor Name, link to issue, link to PR
- YOUR INFO HERE