Open MichaelChirico opened 1 year ago
Do you have any sense of whether it's worth fixing this? By the time we get a release out, I'm worried that most people will have adapted so that the net effect will be more pain.
I don't think a code fix is needed, but a NEWS entry citing this as a potential breaking change still makes sense to me.
Makes sense!
We have some code broken by the update to tidyr 1.3.0 and I don't see the issue mentioned in NEWS so I'm not sure if it's intentional.
I can re-use the example from
?spread
to demonstrate:This breaks use cases that e.g. proceed to use
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on thespread()
output and assume data.table syntax applies: