if(tryCatch(require(RSPerl, quietly = TRUE), error = function(cond)FALSE)) { require(SoDA) set.seed(314) someLetters <- sample(letters, 100, TRUE) tbl <- chunksAdd(data = someLetters[1:50]) tbl <- chunksAdd(tbl, someLetters[51:100]) tbl <- chunksDrop(tbl, someLetters[1:10]) chunksAdd(tbl) # to convert the table }