extendr vs tidytable

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extendr		tidytable
	Project
2	Mentions	26
391	Stars	435
1.3%	Growth	-
8.2	Activity	8.3
7 days ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
Rust	Language	R
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

extendr

Posts with mentions or reviews of extendr. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-01.

Is c++ still the best performance companion language for R?
4 projects | /r/Rlanguage | 1 May 2022

Consider rust.
Introducing tidypolars - a Python data frame package for R tidyverse users
9 projects | /r/rstats | 10 Nov 2021

tidytable

Posts with mentions or reviews of tidytable. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-09.

Tidyverse 2.0.0
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2023
fuzzyjoin - "Error in which(m) : argument to 'which' is not logical"
2 projects | /r/rstats | 6 Apr 2023

If you need speed, you should consider using dtplyr (or tidytable), or even dbplyr with duckdb.
tidytable v0.10.0 is now on CRAN - use tidyverse-like syntax with data.table speed
4 projects | /r/rstats | 10 Mar 2023

And the Github link if you want to dive into the code.

4 projects | /r/rstats | 10 Mar 2023

Other than that you can check the news for other changes!

4 projects | /r/rstats | 10 Mar 2023

What do you think of this instead?

4 projects | /r/rstats | 10 Mar 2023
R Dialects Broke Me
2 projects | /r/Rlanguage | 4 Jan 2023

I’d say tidytable is a better option these days as it supports more functions. Although I think dtplyr has improved on this front recently, but still lags. The author of tidytable contributes to dtplyr as well.
Why is {dplyr} so huge, and are there any alternatives or a {dplyr} 'lite' that I can use for the basic mutate, group_by, summarize, etc?
3 projects | /r/rstats | 15 Dec 2022

Tidytable is what you might be looking for: https://markfairbanks.github.io/tidytable/, this will require a bit of refactoring (e.g group-bys happen as arguments in summarise/mutate). You'll get data.table like speed in a very compact & complete package.
tidytable v0.8.1 is on CRAN - it also comes with a new logo! Need data.table speed with tidyverse syntax? Check out tidytable.
2 projects | /r/rstats | 22 Aug 2022
tidytable v0.7.0 is now on CRAN! Use tidyverse-like syntax with data.table speed.
2 projects | /r/rstats | 17 Feb 2022

Github page - (if you want to browse the source code)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing extendr and tidytable you can also consider the following projects:

dtplyr - Data table backend for dplyr

tidypolars - Tidy interface to polars

ormsgpack - Msgpack serialization/deserialization library for Python, written in Rust using PyO3 and rust-msgpack. Reboot of orjson. msgpack.org[Python]

polars - Dataframes powered by a multithreaded, vectorized query engine, written in Rust

tidyr - Tidy Messy Data

Apache Arrow - Apache Arrow is a multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing

root - The official repository for ROOT: analyzing, storing and visualizing big data, scientifically

Tidier.jl - Meta-package for data analysis in Julia, modeled after the R tidyverse.

roux - Simple and (a)synchronous Reddit API wrapper for Rust.

db-benchmark - reproducible benchmark of database-like ops