Authors aren’t usually listed alphabetically in academic papers though, typically it is relative contribution (not saying alphabetical never happens though).
Why should a user care about an extra MB’s on their phone for a frequently? If we were talking about 10 year ago storage prices/capacity or much larger apps sure this would be a discussion but it shouldn’t be nowadays. I get it programmers like to focus on efficiency, but I promise you 99% of users don’t care about the extra MBs with the price of storage and value of Uber nowadays.
A whole lot of Ubers big spenders. On a individual basis, but I know many consultants/sales people traveling all over the world that spend hundreds or thousands on ubers a month and want the ease of use. Those are Ubers profitable customers buying lux/black cars etc. in addition to many wealth families that use Uber all over the world in vacation. They should be solving for those customers over a customer worried about an extra 50 or 100mb even on their phone
It happens, but mostly because other formats don't produce usable CSV's. The biggest problem is if there are any free-entry text fields (common for customer/business name), and there isn't full quoting around these fields, base R will break.
I believe both fread and readr::read_csv do the right thing here, but the base-R perspective on data manipulation before read.csv is to use Perl (the R-core team are pretty old-school, to be fair).
