Share data.table among R sessions by reference

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
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Active
Tech stack
r
Domain
data

Research direction

No data.table file, test, or entry point is named. Start by checking whether data.table already provides functionality analogous to bigmemory's describe/attach.big.matrix for sharing one table across R processes. Done means an agreed, clearly scoped approach or documented existing capability.

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Description

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I'm looking into ways of sharing a data.table among several R processes on the same maschine by reference, is there already one that I missed? I'm looking for functionality analogous to this:

https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/bigmemory/versions/3.12/topics/describe%2C%20attach.big.matrix

Thank you for the great work on this package.

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