Support conversion to data.table?

[thiagoveloso]

Data.tables are usually considerably faster to process than data frames. I was looking for ways to convert raster objects to data.tables preserving as much information as I could, and I just stumbled upon this function written by Etienne Racine: https://gist.github.com/etiennebr/9515738.

Then I was wondering: any chance this function could be included in the raster package as a native one?

[rhijmans]

I am not going to add this to raster. It seems to me that for most cases this suffices:

v <- as.data.table(as.data.frame(x))
setnames(v, names(x))