Large pivot tables get bogged down and can crash the server
- Dominant language
- R
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- 1
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Description
Large pivot tables get bogged down.
- The HTML is really large. In part this seems to be because the Javascript gets handed some absurdly precise values — more than ten digits. We don’t need this level of precision. Can we force scientific notation (like 123.45e6) instead?
- Sometimes it's bad enough to [crash the RStudio server](https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/RStudio-Server-FAQ--BJP3FLwSnE97ZUcct2VZ1BwMAg-GQfIWhCUnLbRHxeie1REQ#:uid=612500109521580236515986&h2=3.-How-to-Restart-My-R-Session).
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue with a large pivot table and inspect the generated HTML and the JavaScript values it receives. Done means large tables use less precise numeric representations, produce smaller HTML, and no longer crash the RStudio server.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, r
- Domain
- data-visualization, performance
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100