names_transform?

[tdhock]

hi @TysonStanley related to #39 I was wondering if you plan to implement the names_transform argument? e.g.

> tidyr::pivot_longer(data.table("1"=10, "2"=20), 1:2, names_to="int", names_transform=list(int=as.integer))
# A tibble: 2 x 2
    int value
  <int> <dbl>
1     1    10
2     2    20
> print(tidyfast::dt_pivot_longer(data.table("1"=10, "2"=20), 1:2, names_to="int", names_transform=list(int=as.integer)), class=TRUE)
      int value
   <char> <num>
1:      1    10
2:      2    20
> 

Code above shows that tidyr converts int column to integer but tidyfast does not (names_transform argument is ignored).

[TysonStanley]

Hi @tdhock, great question. I definitely intend on integrating this feature (the goal is to replicate tidyr as closely as possible. However, my workload is heavy right now so it doesn't look like I'll be able to work on this package heavily until December or January.