I didn't mean changes in data.table's interface but the way data.table works in itself compared to normal data frames. I know there are valid reasons for structuring data.table's interface the way it is but not all users get it immediately.
As for data.table, I am not complaining, just saying what other users complaints I have heard of. I personally love data.table and am willing to put the effort to learn best ways to use it while most users aren't. Chinmay On 14 Sep, 2013, at 1:29 PM, Steve Lianoglou <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. > > As for the "learning curve" stuff -- no real comment there, but: > >> For eg. I recently heard complains about data.table itself from due to >> changes in interface > > Could you provide some concrete examples about which changes have > stumped users? Perhaps we can learn from these critiques. I had > thought we were pretty good about discussing any (breaking) changes on > list, but I'd be interested to see where this has failed so it might > perhaps be avoided in the future. > >> and learning curve that data.table comes with... I hear >> similar complaints about some packages like ggplot2, plyr.. >> >> Even though all these are great packages.. people don't like radical changes >> to interfaces as it makes refactoring older code even more painful. > > Still curious to hear what radical changes have come down the pipe. > > Thanks for taking the time to comment. > > Cheers, > -steve > > -- > Steve Lianoglou > Computational Biologist > Bioinformatics and Computational Biology > Genentech _______________________________________________ datatable-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/datatable-help
