v1.8.0 is currently held up from CRAN due to the merge() bug fix in R 2.15.0, see thread on r-devel. v1.8.0 tests that blank first suffix is allowed and compares to merge.data.table. CRAN maintainers have also asked me to reduce the frequency of revisions to CRAN going forward.
So, in the meantime bug fixes and feature requests continue to be added to 1.8.0 on R-Forge. For those that have recently joined this list, please do check the "up to the minute NEWS" link at the top of ?data.table, or subscribe to datatable-commits to keep up to date with unstable. There are 9 new features, and 7 bug fixes in 1.8.0. Latest new feature being : o setkey() no longer sorts factor levels. This should be more convenient and compatible with ordered factors where the levels are 'labels', in some order other than alphabetical. The established advice to paste each level with an ordinal prefix, or use another table to hold the factor labels instead of a factor column, is no longer needed. Solves FR#1420. Thanks to Damian Betebenner and Allan Engelhardt raising on datatable-help. Matthew _______________________________________________ datatable-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/datatable-help
