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[R-Forge #1984] Functional Queries #641
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Submitted by: Yike Lu; Assigned to: Nobody; R-Forge link
Add a function, perhaps dtquery=function(DT, ...) DT[...]
I just checked, and this syntax indeed works (it was a very easy function program). This would allow higher order abstractions as part of the standard implementation.
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jangorecki commentedon Jul 20, 2015
It could be simply done by
MichaelChirico commentedon Aug 19, 2019
I'm not sure there's any demand for this?
Seems most suited to
%>%chains, so perhaps it could be added indtplyrinstead?jangorecki commentedon Nov 1, 2019
something related just spotted in the wild: https://stackoverflow.com/a/58652478/2490497
dcaseykc commentedon Nov 2, 2020
Having an exported version of
[.data.table(via dtquery) would be helpful for attempts to extend data.table without running afoul of warnings about using:::in packages.avimallu commentedon May 11, 2021
@jangorecki, this will be closed with #4304, or is it completely different? This SO examples linked seem to point to it serving the same purpose.
jangorecki commentedon May 11, 2021
not really
MichaelChirico commentedon May 20, 2021
IINM this is duplicate of #4872 which now has much more traffic; closing this one