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If speed is a concern and you're working in R, you should use data.table instead of dplyr. In Hadley Wickham's words: "We optimise dplyr for expressiveness on medium data; feel free to use data.table for raw speed on bigger data.". Although personally I don't think data.table is any less expressive.

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As a former data.table user and late-comer to dplyr and pipes, I think data.table is just as expressive when _writing_ (and I do miss indices and in-group references), but is really awful to read. I don't miss the days of reviewing data.table commands, esp. given that many teammates have been relatively inexperienced programmers.

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