v0.8.0

CategoricalArrays v0.8.0

Diff since v0.7.7

Closed issues:

• Check for null values in copy!() (#38)
• WARNING: Compat.Statistics is deprecated, use Statistics instead. (#236)
• cut produces duplicate levels (#244)
• cut() extend doesn't work data has missing values (#246)
• categorical fails on undef` (#248)
• fill! does not copy levels (#249)
• Handle heterogeneous string level types (#255)
• Make fill(::CategoricalValue, ::Integer) return a CategoricalArray (#257)

Merged pull requests:

• Enable CI on Julia 1.4, drop 1.2 (#242) (@nalimilan)
• Fix docs signature of ordered!(A, ordered) (#243) (@kmsquire)
• Fix cut with duplicate breaks (#245) (@nalimilan)
• Install TagBot as a GitHub Action (#247) (@JuliaTagBot)
• Merge levels in fill!(::CategoricalArray, ::CategoricalValue) (#250) (@nalimilan)
• Fix Travis (#251) (@nalimilan)
• Make collect(::CategoricalArray) return a CategoricalArray (#252) (@nalimilan)
• Drop distinction between index and levels (#253) (@nalimilan)
• Add isordered for CategoricalValue (#254) (@juliohm)
• Make fill(v::CategoricalValue, ...) return a CategoricalArray (#259) (@nalimilan)
• Add levels keyword argument to constructors (#260) (@nalimilan)
• Fix printing tests on Julia 1.5 (#261) (@nalimilan)
• Make compress argument to categorical a keyword argument (#262) (@nalimilan)
• Rename allow_missing to allowmissing, fix bug in cut (#263) (@nalimilan)
• Transform SubString and AbstractString leveltypes to String by default (#264) (@nalimilan)
• Fix droplevels! (#265) (@nalimilan)
• Fix copyto! when source and destination levels are equal (#266) (@nalimilan)