summary.data.table

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r
Domain
data, performance

Research direction

The issue names summary(DT), a proposed summary.data.table method, and collapse::qsu; start by comparing their behavior and performance on large data.table inputs. Clarify the intended summary output and scope before implementation, then verify that summary.data.table is faster without changing expected summary results.

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Description

feature request

I use data.table to work with large datasets. The frequent use of summary(DT) drastically slows down my workflow. Any plan to add an optimized summary.data.table? The package collapse has a function called qsu to this end.
https://rdrr.io/cran/collapse/man/qsu.html

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