Currently SubDataFrames are not iterable tables, which is unfortunate as it's actually surprisingly clumsy to convert them to DataFrames. The current method to iterate on DataFrames could probably have a weaker signature and maybe that'd be enough to have it work on any AbstractDataFrame. The main application would be to be able to use it in a by call, see this discourse post
julia> using IterableTables
julia> df = DataFrame(x = rand(10));
julia> by(TableTraits.isiterabletable, df, :x)
10×2 DataFrames.DataFrame
│ Row │ x │ x1 │
├─────┼──────────┼───────┤
│ 1 │ 0.67292 │ false │
│ 2 │ 0.921996 │ false │
│ 3 │ 0.517816 │ false │
│ 4 │ 0.822496 │ false │
│ 5 │ 0.120007 │ false │
│ 6 │ 0.289319 │ false │
│ 7 │ 0.113851 │ false │
│ 8 │ 0.826421 │ false │
│ 9 │ 0.881944 │ false │
│ 10 │ 0.279972 │ false │
Currently
SubDataFramesare not iterable tables, which is unfortunate as it's actually surprisingly clumsy to convert them toDataFrames. The current method to iterate onDataFramescould probably have a weaker signature and maybe that'd be enough to have it work on anyAbstractDataFrame. The main application would be to be able to use it in abycall, see this discourse post