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by tfehring 1593 days ago
Compared to data.table, tidyverse offers significantly better readability and ergonomics in exchange for worse computational and memory efficiency, with the magnitude of the performance ranging from negligible to catastrophic depending on the operation and your data volume. At that data volume, you're probably doing some things that would OOM or hang for days if you translated your data.table code to the corresponding tidyverse code.