Seal of Approval additions (#6364)

Add links to Seal of Approval, social media accounts, and The Raft

Co-authored-by: Toby Dylan Hocking <[email protected]>

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README.md

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 `data.table` is widely used by the R community. It is being directly used by hundreds of CRAN and Bioconductor packages, and indirectly by thousands. It is one of the [top most starred](https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/most-starred-and-forked-github-repos-for-r-in-data-science-fb87a54d2a6a) R packages on GitHub, and was highly rated by the [Depsy project](http://depsy.org/package/r/data.table). If you need help, the `data.table` community is active on [StackOverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/data.table).
 
+A list of packages that significantly support, extend, or make use of `data.table` can be found in the [Seal of Approval](Seal_of_Approval.md) document.
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 ### Stay up-to-date
 
 - click the **Watch** button at the top and right of GitHub project page
 - read [NEWS file](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/blob/master/NEWS.md)
-- follow [#rdatatable](https://twitter.com/hashtag/rdatatable) on twitter
-- follow [#rdatatable](https://fosstodon.org/tags/rdatatable) on fosstodon
+- follow [#rdatatable](https://twitter.com/hashtag/rdatatable) and the [r_data_table](https://x.com/r_data_table) account on X/Twitter
+- follow [#rdatatable](https://fosstodon.org/tags/rdatatable) and the [r_data_table account](https://fosstodon.org/@r_data_table) on fosstodon
+- follow the [data.table community page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/data-table-community) on LinkedIn
 - watch recent [Presentations](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/wiki/Presentations)
 - read recent [Articles](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/wiki/Articles)
+- read posts on [The Raft](https://rdatatable-community.github.io/The-Raft/)
 
 ### Contributing
 

Seal_of_Approval.md

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+# Seal of Approval
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+This is a list of packages in the `data.table` community.
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+Further detail about these packages and their relationship to `data.table` can be found at [The Raft blog](https://rdatatable-community.github.io/The-Raft/#category=seal%20of%20approval).
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+To add your package to this list, please [submit a Pull Request to The Raft](https://github.com/rdatatable-community/The-Raft/), making sure to follow the templated instructions.
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+## Extension packages: Add to the internal functionality of `data.table`
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+- [nc](https://github.com/tdhock/nc): Named capture regular expressions for text parsing and data reshaping.
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+## Application packages: Use `data.table` to accomplish a particular task or analysis.
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+## Bridge package: Translate data.table syntax to different syntax or provides helper functions for transitioning between `data.table` and another object type.
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+- [tidyfast](https://github.com/TysonStanley/tidyfast): Fast and efficient alternatives to tidyr functions built on data.table
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+- [dtplyr](https://github.com/tidyverse/dtplyr): A `data.table` backend for `dplyr`
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+## Partner package: Not necessarily directly connected to `data.table`, but deliberately follows the [core philosophies of `data.table`](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/blob/master/GOVERNANCE.md#the-r-package).