[datatable-help] changing data.table by-without-by syntax to require a "by"

[Juan Manuel Truppia]

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 My unpublished code does.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" <aragorn168b at gmail.com>
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 jmtruppia at gmail.com
> Reply: juancentro jmtruppia at gmail.com
> Date: June 6, 2014 at 12:02:28 AM
> To: datatable-help at lists.r-forge.r-project.org
> datatable-help at lists.r-forge.r-project.org
> 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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