data.table Adding and modifying columns
Remarks
The official vignette, "Reference semantics", is the best introduction to this topic.
A reminder: DT[where, select|update|do, by] syntax is used to work with columns of a data.table.
- The "where" part is the
iargument - The "select|update|do" part is the
jargument
These two arguments are usually passed by position instead of by name.
All modifications to columns can be done in j. Additionally, the set function is available for this use.
