tibble 1.4.2

  2018/01/24

  tidyverse, tibble

  Kirill Müller, Hadley Wickham

We’re excited to announce version 1.4.2 of the tibble package, a minor update focusing mostly on display and performance. This is a small release designed to address the biggest issues introduced in version 1.4.1. We’ve introduced a number of option to give you greater control over the appearance, and tweaked the default to work better for more people. (The option names start with pillar, because that’s the package that is actually responsible for printing; the new options are available with pillar 1.1.0 which will be installed automatically when you install or upgrade tibble.) In addition, tibbles are now displayed faster, even very wide ones. The subsetting performance has also improved.

There are some other small improvements and bug fixes: please see the release notes for a complete list. Use the issue tracker to submit bugs or suggest ideas, your contributions are always welcome.

New options

This article shows the effect of each new option based on the following simple tibble.

The following options were added:

  • pillar.bold: Use bold font, e.g. for column headers? This currently defaults to FALSE, because many terminal fonts have poor support for bold fonts. If the bold-faced column names in tibble 1.4.1 worked for you, add options(pillar.bold = TRUE) to your .Rprofile.

  • pillar.subtle: Use subtle style, e.g. for insignificant digits? Default: TRUE, see below for the effects of options(pillar.subtle = FALSE).

  • pillar.neg: Highlight negative numbers? Default: TRUE, the output for options(pillar.neg = FALSE) is shown below.

  • pillar.sigfig: The number of significant digits that will be printed and highlighted, default: 3. (Set the pillar.subtle option to FALSE to turn off highlighting of significant digits.) See below for an example with options(pillar.sigfig = 5):

  • pillar.min_title_chars: The minimum number of characters for the column title, default: 15. Column titles may be truncated up to that width to save horizontal space. Set to Inf to turn off truncation of column titles. In our example, a column hidden previously is shown when reducing pillar.min_title_chars to 10:

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Anh Le for adding support for trailing commas in tribble(), to Tobias Gauster for fixing a confusing error message, and to all other contributors. We received issues, pull requests, and comments from 33 people since tibble 1.4.1. Thanks to everyone, your feedback is very valuable to us: @anhqle, @batpigandme, @bgreenwell, @blueprint-ade, @BruceZhaoR, @chasemc, @digital-dharma, @drewgendreau, @EdwardJRoss, @hplieninger, @javierluraschi, @jcpetkovich, @kevinushey, @kevinykuo, @khughitt, @kovla, @lorenzwalthert, @lpmarco, @mmuurr, @mundl, @NathanCDay, @p0bs, @patperry, @slonik-az, @Tazinho, @tjmahr, @trinker, @vnijs, @vspinu, @WB-Student, @wch, @yutannihilation, and @Zedseayou.