In this post we write about experience with data.table's fread for reading tabular data from text files such as .csvs and how it compares to other packages like readr or base R.

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We are thrilled to announce Air, a new R formatter.

**Nota:** La presentación será en inglés. Reunión presencial y online. *** **Title:** Using and contributing to the data.table package for efficient big data analysis *