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by disgruntledphd2 897 days ago
yeah, totally, I can see that. I think that polars is the first library to do this locally, which is surprising if it has so many advantages.
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mjhay 897 days ago
It's been around in R-land for a while with dplyr and its variety of backends (including Arrow, the same as Polars). Pandas is just an incredibly mediocre library in nearly all respects.
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disgruntledphd2 897 days ago
> It's been around in R-land for a while with dplyr and its variety of backends

Only for SQL databases, so not really. Source: have been running dplyr since 2011.

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mjhay 894 days ago
The Arrow backend does allow for lazy eval.

https://arrow.apache.org/cookbook/r/manipulating-data---tabl...

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