Apply multiple functions to multiple columns in data.table

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I’d normally do this:

my.summary = function(x) list(mean = mean(x), median = median(x))

DT[, unlist(lapply(.SD, my.summary)), .SDcols = c('a', 'b')]
#a.mean a.median   b.mean b.median 
#     3        3        4        4

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