[hobolord]

the grammar of data.table is a bit similar to SQL, and I find that it's easier to quickly write something vs piping in dplyr

[newen]

Plus I don't have to remember a lot of function names and what order to input vars to the functions. Just have a remember the data.table index syntax and I can do a lot of stuff. I'm sure I can do dplyr once I learn the functions but the data.table syntax seems very simple and elegant to me.