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What is the state of data frame support in Julia?

DataFrames.jl provides very similar functionality to the R DataFrame, plus some functions similar to those from the R reshape package. Other packages build upon this to provide e.g. LINQ-like operators [2].

[1] https://juliadata.github.io/DataFrames.jl

[2] https://github.com/queryverse/Query.jl

Exceptional — and its lead author is the author of this blog post.

http://juliadata.github.io/DataFrames.jl/stable/

Is that what you meant to link? It looks like the official docs, and not a blog post.

I think “this blog post” refers to the OP :)

This post is also relevant: https://bkamins.github.io/julialang/2020/08/02/post_juliacon...

Edit: it’s a bit more into the weeds than I thought. Honestly the docs give a better picture of DataFrames.jl

It's fine, but I think row indices would add a lot. Right now there's also a TimeSeries package that could be obviate if Julia had a Pandas-like implementation. And the TimeSeries functionality is very primitive, not even supporting resampling and forward or backfilling data

Row indices are super powerful and things are annoying without them. I've actually been thinking about programming a new and improved data frame library inspired by Pandas (but not so ugly and complicated), but the amount of work to write and then maintain it would be prohibitive.

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