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by IndianAstronaut 3657 days ago
Are you able to load data sets into data.table which are larger than memory?
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AFAIK, with data.table it's all in-memory; whereas dplyr has the option of working with a database backend.

On the other hand, data.table has robust support for modify and update ops by reference, which can be a big performance saver.