Arun, I only complained to myself! My published packages dont depend on data.table. My unpublished code does. But I am not complaining about the change, it is a good one! I was just asking if you had reached a decision.
I meant the complaining part as something funny, not to be taken at face value. On Jun 5, 2014 7:13 PM, "Arunkumar Srinivasan" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > [email protected] > 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! > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/changing-data-table-by-without-by-syntax-to-require-a-by-tp4664770p4691774.html > Sent from the datatable-help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > datatable-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/datatable-help > >
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