What are your thoughts on data.table vs tidyverse vs tidy syntax with data.table backends (dtplyr, tidytable) in R?

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  1. tidyr

    Tidy Messy Data

    I originally wrote tidytable because dtplyr was missing a lot of functionality my coworkers and I needed, and at the time dtplyr looked like a "forgotten package" (lots of open issues/bugs, very infrequent updates). Hadley Wickham also mentioned at one point [he had no plans for adding tidyr functions)[https://github.com/tidyverse/tidyr/issues/1015#issuecomment-682977139]. He changed his mind on that one - tidyr functions are the ones that I'm in the process of contributing to dtplyr now.

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  3. tidytable

    Tidy interface to 'data.table'

    However the package site goes over basic usage. And clicking through the individual function documentation should give you a pretty good idea of what's possible!

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