Disagree with Hadley's comment about databases

You have really generated a sea of speculation from a single sentence in the dplyr docs (which are aimed at more introductory R users). For all your proposed use cases, yes, I agree with you, a database is better.

That said, I am very familiar with SQL, and I stand by my assertion that it can be frustrating. If you don’t ever find it to be so, that’s most likely because you’re suffering from the curse of expertise.

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