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Data Explorer: support a data.table syntax
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area: data explorer
lang: r
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Description
Continued work that is morally part of #8474 and follows on from #9030, which implements "convert to code" for dplyr.
This issue is about making data.table appear as an option here (this screenshot is what we want in the future):
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading issues #8474 and #9030, then trace the Data Explorer flow that supports dplyr's "convert to code" option. Done means data.table appears as an available syntax option and matches the intended screenshot, but the issue does not identify files or tests.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- r
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100