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In December 2019 my InfoWorld colleague Sharon Machlis wrote an article called “How to merge data in R using R merge, dplyr, or data.table.” Sharon is a whiz at R programming, and analytics in general ...

Microsoft will retire Power Query support for Python in Excel for the web on October 16, 2026, potentially breaking existing workflows.