I counted closed issues intentionally — this isn’t some one-off matter that’s easily resolved, as clearly hundreds of people have struggled with these issues over the years, and this should not be dismissed.
It’s far better aesthetically than Python. It’s just too different from the other libraries I use to disrupt my cognitive flow. You might say there are too many ways to do something, too, which makes it that much harder to figure out what code written by someone else (or myself three months ago) does. I also severely dislike seeing calls to eval or unevaluated code within the main body of my program —- quoted code looks awful and I trust it less.
It’d be interesting to see DT repackaged as its own tool with its own syntax. As it stands, it’s constrained by R and it has no comparable ecosystem to the tidyverse around it.
It’s far better aesthetically than Python. It’s just too different from the other libraries I use to disrupt my cognitive flow. You might say there are too many ways to do something, too, which makes it that much harder to figure out what code written by someone else (or myself three months ago) does. I also severely dislike seeing calls to eval or unevaluated code within the main body of my program —- quoted code looks awful and I trust it less.
It’d be interesting to see DT repackaged as its own tool with its own syntax. As it stands, it’s constrained by R and it has no comparable ecosystem to the tidyverse around it.