20 Years of data.table
Version 1.0.0 of data.table was released in 2006.
In the 20 years since then, it has grown to one of the most widely-used and influential packages in R history. With hundreds of contributors, thousands of reverse dependencies, and millions of CRAN downloads a year, anyone who has used R in the past two decades is guaranteed to have been helped by data.table.
Join us in celebrating the 20th anniversary of this iconic package with a global remote event - featuring tutorials and talks by developers and users as well as fun games and freebie giveaways.
Tickets
Schedule
November 15th, 2026
This one-hour tutorial is designed to take existing data.table users to the next level. You will learn some tips, tricks, and advanced strategies to make data.table do even more for your data.
This tutorial is lead by David Shilane, author of the upcoming textbook Mastering data.table in R.
The main event—featuring talks from the biggest names in data.table, fun social activities, and giveaways. Talks include:
“An NSF Grant for data.table” Toby Hocking, developer
“Rolling Statistics” Jan Gorecki, developer
“A Recap of Initial Undergraduate Reflections on Using data.table for Data Analysis” Erin Fanke and Sara Colando, educators
“Advanced file reading applications with data.table” David Shilane, author
“APIpocalypse” Ivan Krylov, developer
“The Past, Present, and Future of data.table” Tyson Barrett, maintainer