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Install the stable release from CRAN: install.packages("data.table") Or the development version from github: install.packages("data.table", type = "source", repos = "http://Rdatatable.github.io/data.table") To revert from devel to CRAN, the ...

The package's official wiki has some essential materials: As a new user, you will want to check out the vignettes, FAQ and cheat sheet. Before asking a question -- here on StackOverflow or anywhere else -- please read the support page. For help on individual functions, the syntax is h...

Basic syntax DT[where, select|update|do, by] syntax is used to work with columns of a data.table. The "where" part is the i argument The "select|update|do" part is the j argument These two arguments are usually passed by position instead of by name. A sequence of steps c...