Version 0.6 • pipette

pipette 0.6.0 (2021-06-04)

Major changes:

import now uses S4 methods based on the file argument, which can be manually overridden with the format argument (e.g. “csv” for a CSV file).
import and export now support engine argument for methods dispatching on character and data.frame. Currently “base” (base R), “data.table”, “readr”, and “vroom” are supported.
Source code lines now default to using base R for import/export by default. Previously, this defaulted to data.table, which is now only used as the default for import of delimited files.

Minor changes:

import: Added support for removeBlank and stripWhitespace for import of source code lines (LinesFile).
import: Improved import handling of source code lines using data.table.

Minor changes:

import: Ensure that data.table engine always interprets empty strings ("") as NA. The fread function is opinionated about this and doesn’t currently respect "" input as an NA string.
decode/encode: Ensure we’re not dropping metadata here.

Minor changes:

localOrRemoteFile: Improved handling of URLs without a file extension.
import/export: Simplified the appearance of file variables, making them easier to copy directly from the console for debugging.

Minor changes:

sanitizeNA(): Reworked internal call to use factor instead of as.factor followed by a separate levels call. This can result in an unwanted value swap for factors with a single value. Added code coverage to check for this.
Updated package dependency versions.