Get in Shape

No major changes in this release. A few bug-fixes, and rewrites of the way that cSplit parses the data. Deprecated functions have been marked as such in preparation for v2.0.

Split-ups

18 October 2014

Major enhancements

• cSplit and cSplit_f have been added as core functions. :::read.concat is, by extension, deprecated but still included.
• A few new utility functions added.

NOTE: Have yet to check on whether there would be any benefit to switching Stacked to use melt.data.table, so presently, the implementation is the same as in v1.2.0, but with a few functional enhancements.

Stackers

27 August 2013

_Major Enhancements_

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

NOTE: Forthcoming versions of the "data.table" package will likely implement their own optimized version of melt. This will likely lead to a major re-working of this function to utilize that efficiency.