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splitstackshape NEWS

Author/Maintainer : Ananda Mahto Email : [email protected] URL : http://github.com/mrdwab/splitstackshape BugReports : http://github.com/mrdwab/splitstackshape/issues

1.4.6

22 July 2018

Interim release to help the data.table team with reverse dependency checks.

1.4.5

05 April 2018

Preparing for transition to V2 of the splitstackshape package.

• Redundant functions are being marked using .Deprecated(). These include concat.split.multiple and concat.split.compact, both of which can now just directly use cSplit.
• cSplit_f has been removed as it would no longer be relevant in V2 of the package and isn't entirely reliable the way it has been written. fread, on which the function was based, has underwent many changes since the function was written.

Tests have been added covering most basic cases, but not for all potential bugs that have been fixed in V2 of the package.

• stratified has been fixed.
• cSplit_f has been removed.

1.4.4

29 March 2018

• Reshape() bugfix. Reported at https://stackoverflow.com/q/49281838/1270695.
• listCol_w() bugfix. Thanks to @jazzurro.
• cSplit_e() bugfix. Reported at https://stackoverflow.com/q/48576331/1270695

1.4.3

20 March 2018

• Updated the NAMESPACE to address the NOTES when building the package

1.4.2

23 October 2014

• listCol_l and listCol_w added as utilities for unlisting or flattening columns stored as lists in data.frames and data.tables.

1.4.1

18 October 2014

Bug in :::.stripWhite when using "|" as a delimiter fixed.

1.4.0

13 October 2014

See 1.3.0 -- 1.3.8 for details of changes.

cSplit now replaces concat.split.compact and concat.split.multiple in concat.split; cSplit_f has been introduced as a related function. Other new functions are stratified and expandRows.

1.3.8

12 October 2014

Added functions

• cSplit_f

  The "_f" is both representative of fread, which this function uses to split the concatenated cells, and "fixed", which is indicative of the fact that this function would only work if the number of resulting columns is the same for each row in the input.

• expandRows

  "Expand" the rows of a data.frame or a data.table either by values specified in a column of the input dataset or by a vector specifying the number of times to repeat each row.

Enhancement

• Reshape, Stacked, and merged.stack now try to guess the "id.vars" values based on the values in "var.stubs". The values can still be specified manually.

1.3.1 -- 1.3.7

08/10 October 2014

Incremental cleanups and additions to get ready for V1.4.0.

Enhancement

• concat.split.compact and concat.split.multiple are now simply wrappers for cSplit and no longer use :::read.concat to split up the values.
• concat.split.expanded and concat.split.list now made data.table compatable.
• concat.split.list and concat.split.expanded given short name forms (cSplit_l and cSplit_e).

Added functions:

• cSplit

  Before the release of 1.4.0, the basic concat.split* functions would become simple wrappers for cSplit, which is much more efficient than the previous implementations. The earlier functions will remain for compatability purposes. Since cSplit is already in use, it will be an exported function.

• stratified

  A function to take fixed or proportional samples by group from a data.frame or data.table.

Non-exported additions:

• :::.collapseMe
• :::.stripWhite
• :::Names
• :::trim
• :::vGrep

1.3.0

27 October 2013

Feature Changes

• Due to changes resulting from the introduction of numMat and charMat, concat.split.expanded and concat.split now have an additional argument, type, which takes a value of either "numeric" or "character". It is set to a default of type = "numeric" in the case of concat.split.expanded and type = NULL in the case of concat.split.

Added functions:

• :::numMat

  numMat replaces binaryMat and valueMat for numeric data.

• :::charMat

  charMat replaces charBinaryMat for string data.

Dropped functions:

Due to changes introduced after recommendations by @flodel, the following functions have been rewritten as numMat and charMat

• :::binaryMat
• :::valueMat
• :::charBinaryMat

1.2.1

20 October 2013

Feature Changes

New function added:

• :::charBinaryMat

  concat.split.expanded did not previously support expanding "character" data. Due to prompting by @juba, charBinaryMat has been included to handle such cases.

1.2.0

27 August 2013

Enhancement

• Further refinement of Stacked and merge.stack. merge.stack is now faster than Reshape, at least for large datasets.

1.1.0

18 August 2013

Enhancement

• Stacked and merge.stack now made MUCH faster using almost a pure data.table solution.

1.0.2

17 August 2013

Bugfixes

• When Stacked results in a list of length 1, it is "unlisted" before being returned.
• Reshape (and as a result, concat.split.multiple(..., direction = "long")) has been enhanced by the addition of a feature to automatically add an ID variable if the present "IDs" are not unique.

Feature Changes

New functions added:

• getanID
• :::Names

1.0.1

16 August 2013

Bugfixes

• read.concat updated to use count.fields to determine the correct number of columns that the resulting data.frame should have.

Feature change

• Reshape now has an option to remove the rownames from the output, set to TRUE by default.

1.0

12 August 2013

Initial commit of splitstacshape with the following main functions:

• concat.split (plus: concat.split.compact, concat.split.expanded, concat.split.list, and concat.split.multiple) -- To split concatenated data into more manageable data formats.
• Reshape -- To help base R's reshape function handle unbalanced data and simplify the reshape syntax (wide to long only).
• Stacked -- To selectively stack columns of a data.frame.

Full list of functions

Non-exported functions are indicated with ::: before their names.

• concat.split.compact
• concat.split.expanded
• concat.split.list
• concat.split.multiple
• concat.split
• merged.stack
• Reshape
• Stacked
• :::binaryMat
• :::FacsToChars
• :::NoSep
• :::othernames
• :::read.concat
• :::valueMat

Reference manual