[datatable-help] Have a patch for mere.data.table to take`suffixes` param like merge.data.frame

[Short, Tom]

Please do, Steve. 

Tom



On Feb 24, 2011, at 16:34, "Steve Lianoglou" <mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi again,
> 
> I have a small patch I can commit (if you like) for having
> merge.data.table act more like merge.data.frame by adding suffixes
> when merging two data.tables more like you would expect when one
> merges two data.frames.
> 
> The default would be suffixes=c(".x", ".y"), like merge.data.frame,
> but this is (obviously) up to the user.
> 
> Is that acceptable? I figured that 'data.table way' discourages
> `merge` in favor dt1[dt2, ...] type stuff, so I thought the caller who
> uses `merge` would expect it to work more like a data.frame merge,
> which is why I thought this would be useful..
> 
> Also -- I'm in a bit of holding pattern until the other issues are
> resolved (primarily how to properly test -- even if just temporarily),
> otherwise I'd be happy to commit it back into the repo.
> 
> Thanks,
> -steve
> 
> -- 
> Steve Lianoglou
> Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology
>  | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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