December Meetup: data.table package

Bring your lunch and join us for our first daytime meetup! JoAnn Rudd Alvarez will be teaching us about the data.table package (see abstract below). We'll again be meeting in the VUMC Department of Biostatistics conference room; there is paid parking available in the 2525 West End garage behind the building.

data.table: Where have you been all my life?

data.table is an easy to use R package for querying and manipulating data. Dataset updates run much faster than with the base R paradigm, and specifying complicated calculations is more intuitive. This talk will show some of the package's features as well as point out a couple of gotchas.