My message below sounds a little aggressive, I apologize in advance for
that. But I can't think of better wording.
This is a small change, which will have a small benefit, mainly for the
data.table authors, who really brought it on themselves by choosing to
(ab)use R extraction syntax to have side effects. Surely you or they
should be the ones to run the test across all of CRAN?
Duncan Murdoch
On 2024-10-25 6:35 a.m., Ivan Krylov via R-devel wrote:
On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 13:23:56 -0400
Toby Hocking <tdho...@gmail.com> wrote:
The patch you are proposing to base R is
https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/6566#issuecomment-2428912338
right?
Yes, it's this one, thank you for providing the link.
Surprisingly, a very cursory check of 100 packages most downloaded from
cloud.r-project.org in the last month resulted in only one change to
worse: it's the data.table's own test of auto-printing behaviour. But
there might still be breakage we don't see yet.
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