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@arni-magnusson arni-magnusson released this 06 May 02:52
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2.19.0
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2023-05-06

New functions:

  • Added update.data.frame() to replace rows of a data frame.

New features:

  • Added argument 'add.col.nums' to left() and right().

Other changes:

  • Improved ll() so it handles S4 objects. Also accepts unit="GB" (contributed by Michael Chirico) and unit="B", now case-insensitive.

  • Improved right() so it returns the rightmost columns of a matrix or data frame.

  • Renamed first two arguments of startsWith() to 'x' and 'prefix'.

  • Removed elem() - was deprecated in gregmisc/gdata 2.0.3 (2005-02-25).

  • Excel file support is now deprecated, to be removed in the near future. At the user level, the functions installXLSXsupport(), read.xls(), sheetCount(), sheetNames(), xls2csv(), xls2sep(), xls2tab(), xls2tsv(), and xlsFormats() now raise a warning about the functionality being deprecated. Excel file support was first introduced in gregmisc/gdata 1.11.0 back in 2004, but today we have packages such as openxlsx, readxl, XLConnect, and xlsx offering dedicated Excel file support with more features. When Excel file support will be removed from the gdata package, it will result in lighter package maintenance and no more Perl warnings on the user side.

  • Package maintainer is Arni Magnusson.

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