# A living post of Julia vs R's data manipulation tasks speeds

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-living-post-of-julia-vs-rs-data-manipulation-tasks-speeds/6316>\
**Category:** Data\
**Tags:** data\
**Created:** [October 7, 2017, 11:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-living-post-of-julia-vs-rs-data-manipulation-tasks-speeds/6316 "2017-10-07T23:53:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![xiaodai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/xiaodai/32/15937_2.png) [@xiaodai](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/xiaodai)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 4:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-living-post-of-julia-vs-rs-data-manipulation-tasks-speeds/6316/21 "2021-08-27T04:24:28Z")

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> [@K\_Zhao](#):
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> flooded with special characters (!, \_, \_\_, 🙂 - it

Use it in conjunction with packages as recommended in this. Tidyverse are also just a set of packages.

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/5/5/556ce74ea1b537bb97300c885d05431164e49419.jpeg "Best Julia packages for manipulating tabular (dataframe) data") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDvpLFxcL84)

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**Author:** ![sylvaticus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sylvaticus/32/203883_2.png) [@sylvaticus](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sylvaticus)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 6:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-living-post-of-julia-vs-rs-data-manipulation-tasks-speeds/6316/22 "2021-08-27T06:36:49Z")

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Note that this was a 2017 conversation… lots of things have changed (improved) since…

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