Sorry to clear up the reasons why: RODBC because it allows me to seamlessly interact with all the databases at the place I work.
And data.table because it does aggregation about 50x times faster than plyr (which I used to use a lot). Thanks, Rob On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Rob Forler <rfor...@uchicago.edu> wrote: > RODBC > data.table > > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Tony B <tony.bre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> I only really need the base packages, but otherwise I suppose the most >> useful for me are: >> >> (1) RCurl >> (2) plyr >> (3) XML >> >> On 2 Mar, 20:13, Ralf B <ralf.bie...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi R-fans, >> > >> > I would like put out a question to all R users on this list and hope >> > it will create some feedback and discussion. >> > >> > 1) What are your 3 most useful R package? and >> > >> > 2) What R package do you still miss and why do you think it would make >> > a useful addition? >> > >> > Pulling answers together for these questions will serve as a guide for >> > new users and help people who just want to get a hint where to look >> > first. Happy replying! >> > >> > Best, >> > Ralf >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > r-h...@r-project.org mailing listhttps:// >> stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> > PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp:// >> www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
