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@ELToulemonde ELToulemonde released this 26 Oct 07:09

New features:

  • New features in existing functions:

    • findAndTransFormDates now recognize date character even if "0" are not present in month or day part and month as lower strings.
    • findAndTransFormDates and setColAsDate now work with factors.
  • New functions:

    • fastDiscretization: to perform equal freq or equal width discretization on a data set using data.table power.
    • fastScale: to perform scaling on a data set using data.table power.
    • one_hot_encoder: to perform one_hot encoding on a data set using data.table power.
  • New documentation:

    • A new vignette to illustrate how to build a correct train and test set unising data preparation
    • Minor changes in log (in particular regarding progress bars and typos)
    • Due to dependencies issues with tcltk, we stop using it and start using progress

Refactoring:

  • Private function real_cols take more importance to control that columns have the correct types and handling "auto" value.
  • Making code faster: some functions are up to 30% faster
  • Review unit testing to be faster
  • Unit test evolution to be more readable

WARNING:

  • date1 column in messy_adult data set has changed in order to illustrate the recognition of date character even if "0" are not present in month or day part.