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reshape2 1.4; Kevin Ushey joins Rstudio

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Written by Hadley Wickham
2014-05-09

Please note that the information presented in this post reflects the package as it stood when initially released, and may now be outdated. For the most up-to-date information, kindly refer to https://tidyr.tidyverse.org/.

reshape2 1.4 is now available on CRAN. This version adds a number of useful arguments and messages, but mostly importantly it gains a C++ implementation of melt.data.frame(). This new method should be much much faster (>10x) and does a better job of preserving existing attributes. For full details, see the release notes on github.

The C++ implementation of melt was contributed by Kevin Ushey, who we’re very pleased to announce has joined RStudio. You may be familiar with Kevin from his contributions to Rcpp, or his CRAN packages Kmisc and timeit.

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Hadley Wickham

Chief Scientist, Posit
Hadley is Chief Scientist at Posit PBC, winner of the 2019 COPSS award, and a member of the R Foundation. He builds tools (both computational and cognitive) to make data science easier, faster, and more fun. His work includes packages for data science (like the tidyverse, which includes ggplot2, dplyr, and tidyr)and principled software development (e.g. roxygen2, testthat, and pkgdown). He is also a writer, educator, and speaker promoting the use of R for data science.

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