:book: cookbook-rpolars

The purpose of this book is to introduce some of the features of Polars with R. It contains a side-by-side comparison between Polars, R base and the two most popular packages for data manipulation dplyr and data.table.

Table of Contents

• First steps

• Data manipulation

• Import/Export

• Lazy execution

• Benchmarking

Coming soon:

• Writing your own R function with polars. See this issue.

Contribution

This book is free and open source, so please do open an issue or even better a PR if you notice a problem.

How to render the book locally

If you want to render the book locally, follow these instructions in your terminal:

git clone https://github.com/ddotta/cookbook-rpolars.git (HTTPS)
or
git clone git@github.com:ddotta/cookbook-rpolars.git (SSH)
quarto render book/

Overview of the book and equivalences between different syntaxes