Please do, Steve. Tom
On Feb 24, 2011, at 16:34, "Steve Lianoglou" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi again, > > I have a small patch I can commit (if you like) for having > merge.data.table act more like merge.data.frame by adding suffixes > when merging two data.tables more like you would expect when one > merges two data.frames. > > The default would be suffixes=c(".x", ".y"), like merge.data.frame, > but this is (obviously) up to the user. > > Is that acceptable? I figured that 'data.table way' discourages > `merge` in favor dt1[dt2, ...] type stuff, so I thought the caller who > uses `merge` would expect it to work more like a data.frame merge, > which is why I thought this would be useful.. > > Also -- I'm in a bit of holding pattern until the other issues are > resolved (primarily how to properly test -- even if just temporarily), > otherwise I'd be happy to commit it back into the repo. > > Thanks, > -steve > > -- > Steve Lianoglou > Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology > | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center > | Weill Medical College of Cornell University > Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact > _______________________________________________ > datatable-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/datatable-help _______________________________________________ datatable-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/datatable-help
