This respository offers an introductory guide to working with big data in R developed for the Rutgers' Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science's spring 2020 data club. It focuses mostly on ...

That being said, `data.frame`s are not without their problems, of which I highlight two (spoiler alert: `data.table` addresses both): ...

See how to join two data sets by one or more common columns using base R’s merge function, dplyr join functions, and the speedy data.table package.