[datatable-help] fread'ing logicals

[Chinmay Patil]

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 <lianoglou.steve at gene.com> 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