11 Further Reading

11.1 Additional Examples

You should study additional tutorials of dplyr that utilize other data sets:

• Read the dplyr introductory vignette
• Read the examples given in the R for Data Science assigned reading

11.2 Additional dplyr Features

• We’ve only scratched the surface – many interesting demos of dplyr can be found online
• dplyr can work with other data frame backends such as SQL databases
• There is an SQL interface for relational databases via the DBI package
• dplyr can be integrated with the data.table package for large fast tables
• There is a healthy rivalry between dplyr and data.table