Juancentro,

Matt started a post on this topic in March this year here: 
http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/datatable-help/2014-March/002430.html
 Have you read it or contributed there? If not, when and where did you 
complain? 
Matt also checked all dependent packages on data.table (on CRAN, I believe, 
bioconductor - not sure) and contacted those authors whose unit tests failed on 
this issue, IIRC. Are you developing a package that's dependent on data.table? 
If so, is it already on CRAN or bioconductor? If not, how do you expect us to 
reach you other than through the mailing list?
And 1.9.3 is a development version, where these things are meant to be ironed 
out before pushing a *stable* release to CRAN. And IIUC, by the time it'll be 
pushed to CRAN, there should a provision to use older feature or somehow 
another fix so that the older feature can be properly deprecated. As I said 
before, this is *still* in development, and we've not gotten to it yet.

I think rather that you should be following the mailing list closely (and NEWS) 
and contribute to the conversations when decisions are being made.

Arun

From: juancentro [email protected]
Reply: juancentro [email protected]
Date: June 6, 2014 at 12:02:28 AM
To: [email protected] 
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Subject:  Re: [datatable-help] changing data.table by-without-by syntax to 
require a "by"  

Hi, what's the current status on this one? In the last 1.9.3 by=EACHI is  
used. This is disruptive for current users (it has broken several pieces of  
my code) but, after complaining and barking, I realized that it is really  
more intuitive and reasonable to do a by just when a by is explicit.  
Are there any plans to release 1.9.3 and which syntax will be kept? I want  
to be prepared  

thanks!  



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