revamp internals to preserve data type and consider renaming `shadow_long` and `shadow_gather` functions

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revamp internals to preserve data type and consider renaming `shadow_long` and `shadow_gather` functions #295

Closed njtierney closed 1 year ago

njtierney commented 2 years ago

To be more in line with pivot_longer and pivot_wider functions.

Also there is an issue with shadow_long where the data type is not preserved. In this case, one of the variables is coerced from numeric to character

njtierney commented 1 year ago

This has been resolved in #330. The alternate name could be shadow_longer, however I think that shadow_long still evokes the right idea, and I don't think the extra er is worth it