pillar 1.9.0

Features

• Math operations on num() objects no longer perform type checks. This allows, e.g., multiplying a num() with a logical (#630, #632).

Printing

• The default for the pillar.min_title_chars option has been bumped up to 20 characters so that title truncuation only affects very long variables. Use options(pillar.min_title_chars = 5) to reset to the previous default (#582, #620).

• Use info bullets to format details (#582, #617, #627, #635).

Breaking changes

• colonnade(), extra_cols() and squeeze() are now hard-deprecated (#272, #374, #631).

Bug fixes

• Show colnames() hint only when needed (tidyverse/tibble#1488, #622).

• Fix printing of very small numbers (#615, #619).

• Shortened list columns are also shown with a subtle style (#628, #634).

• Avoid warning with S4 character classes (tidyverse/tibble#1367, #625).

• Fix method consistency, checked by R-devel (#633).

Documentation

• Polish ?pillar_options (#583).

• Fix typo & missing quote in digits vignette stub (@gavinsimpson, #629).

Internal

• Require vctrs >= 0.5.0

pillar 1.8.1

Features

• New pillar.advice option to turn off advice in the footer, see ?pillar_options. Now off by default in non-interactive mode (#577).

pillar 1.8.0

Display

• Column names that are abbreviated in the header gain a footnote and are printed in full in the footer (#483),
  after the extra columns (#548). If a column name in the header is abbreviated, all backticks are removed (#525). The new "pillar.superdigit_sep" option that determines the string used to separate footnote from column name in the footer (#553).

• The default value of the pillar.min_title_width option is changed to 5. This means that effectively the width of a pillar is decided only by the data. Use options(pillar.min_title_width = 15) to restore the previous default, see also ?pillar_options for details (#531).

• Offer advice in the footer on how to print all columns or rows (#567).

• Avoid aligning NA inside quotes for very short character vectors (#562).

Features

• Pick up "pillar_focus" attribute on printing to define focus columns (#549).

• New ctl_new_rowid_pillar() generic and default method for customizing the appearance of row IDs (#260, #550, @nbenn).

Bug fixes

• Fix printing of Surv and Surv2 objects (#561).

• Fix wording for corner case max_extra_cols = 1 (#535).

• Remove excess underlines for bit64::integer64() data of different magnitude (#517, #529).

Documentation

• ctl_new_pillar_list() is documented on a separate help page (#516).

• Remove outdated detail in ?tbl_sum (@IndrajeetPatil, #565).

Chore

• Drop crayon dependency (#559).

• Import ellipsis from rlang (#554).

• Skip test that requires lubridate if it's not installed (#505, @MichaelChirico).

API

• Soft-deprecate colonnade(), squeeze() and extra_cols() (#496).

• Require rlang 1.0.1 (#512).

pillar 1.7.0

Breaking changes

• colonnade() is now soft-deprecated (#485).
• expect_known_display() and is_vector_s3() are now deprecated (#460, #501).
• new_pillar() deprecates extra argument (#497).

Features

• Focus columns specified via the focus argument to tbl_format_setup() are kept in their original place and shown with the maximum width and with the "type" component underlined (#465).

Bug fixes

• Update s3_register() to use new implementation from rlang, this fixes CRAN checks related to scale_type() (#462).

Internal

• Single pillars constructed with pillar() use only as much width as required when printing (#484).

pillar 1.6.5

Breaking changes

• New ctl_new_pillar_list(), supersedes ctl_new_compound_pillar() (#433).

Features

• If some but not all sub-columns of a data frame or matrix column are shown, the names and types of the remaining columns are displayed in the footer (#365, #444).
• num(fixed_exponent = ...) is now represented with the fixed exponent in the pillar header, and in the title in ggplot2 (#307).
• tbl_format_setup() gains focus argument that expects a character vector of column names. Focus columns are moved to the front and separated from the main columns by a subtle vertical line (#384).
• New scale_x_num() and scale_y_num(). If a column created with num() is used in a ggplot, the x and y scale will be formatted automatically according to to the specification (#400, #404).
• List columns omit size information if horizontal space is insufficient (#392).
• If the column title of a backticked column is abbreviated, the trailing backtick is still printed (#391).
• new_pillar_shaft_simple() gains short_formatted argument that contains the data to be used if horizontal space is insufficient (#389).
• Default obj_sum() method returns abbreviation in attribute of return value (#390).

Bug fixes

• Extra columns in footer show backticks again if they are non-syntactic (#393).
• Fixed some cases for combinations of printed width and getOption("width") (#432).
• Fix support for nanotime::nanotime() classes (#378, #380).

Documentation

• ?num and ?char now point to tibble (#382).

Internal

• Use eager registration via NAMESPACE for own methods for classes from other packages.
• Reworked formatting routine, now using a visitor-based approach with in-order iteration over all pillars. The only visible changes are that usage of free space (in the case of limited space) has slightly improved (#435).
• Prepared removal of dependency on the crayon package (#233, #406).
• Use snapshot variants, requires testthat >= 3.1.1 (#387).
• Replace internal "pillar_vertical" class with glue::as_glue() (#279).

pillar 1.6.4

Bug fixes

• Fix printing for some tibbles where a fixed-width column is followed by a column with variable width (#366).
• Avoid nested backtick blocks in vignette.

Breaking changes

• num() requires an integerish digits argument (#362).

Documentation

• Link to tibble vignettes and documentation pages.

pillar 1.6.3

• Avoid blanket import for lifecycle package for compatibility with upcoming rlang (#368, @romainfrancois).

pillar 1.6.2

Options

• Options pillar.print_max, pillar.print_min, pillar.width and pillar.max_extra_cols are now queried before the corresponding tibble. or dplyr. options are consulted, the latter will be soft-deprecated in pillar v2.0.0 (#353).
• New pillar.bidi option. When active, control characters are inserted to improve display of data with right-to-left text (#333).
• The new pillar.max_footer_lines option (default: 7) allows controlling the maximum number of footer lines shown. It is applied in addition to the existing tibble.max_extra_cols option (#263).

Formatting

• If a column doesn't make use of all horizontal width offered to it, the excess width is distributed over other columns (#331).
• Improved allocation of free space in multi-tier tables with getOption("tibble.width") > getOption("width") (#344).
• All pillars are shown with their true horizontal extent, irrespective of the indicated width. This simplifies the implementation of custom pillar_shaft() methods (#347).

Features

• num() gains extra_sigfig argument to automatically show more significant figures for numbers of the same magnitude with subtle differences (#97).
• print.tbl() and format.tbl() support the max_extra_cols and max_footer_lines arguments that override the corresponding options (#360).
• print.tbl() and format.tbl() maps the now deprecated n_extra argument to max_extra_cols for consistency (#360).

Bug fixes

• Avoid mangling of duplicate column names in footer (#332).
• Fix warning with zero of type bit64::integer64() (#319).

Documentation

• All package options are now documented in ?pillar_options (#339).
• obj_sum() no longer calls type_sum() for vectors since pillar v1.6.1, this is now documented (#321).
• Fix documentation on usage of vctrs::vec_proxy() and vctrs::vec_restore() (#322).

Internal

• Using attr(exact = TRUE) everywhere.
• is_vector_s3() is no longer generic (#181).
• Fix internal logic around vec_proxy() and vec_restore() (#316).

pillar 1.6.1

• Bump required versions of ellipsis and vctrs to avoid warning during package load.
• obj_sum() no longer includes shape twice (#315).

pillar 1.6.0

Features

• New num() and char() offer a flexible way to customize the display of numeric and character columns (#191, #84).
• New "pillar.max_dec_width" option (#308).
• New format_type_sum.AsIs() avoids the need to implement your own format_type_sum() method (#286).
• align() gains space argument to control the character used for filling (#285).
• Numbers in scientific and decimal notation are formatted with the same rules regarding significant or decimal digits (#297).

Bug fixes

• Load the debugme package only if the DEBUGME environment variable is set.
• More accurate detection if the decimal dot is necessary, and how many digits to show after the decimal dot (#298).
• Use display width instead of number of characters when truncating character columns.

Documentation

• New vignette("numbers") and vignette("digits") (#308).

Internal

• Compatibility with vctrs 0.3.7 (#291).
• format.pillar_shaft_simple() requires "na" attribute and no longer defaults to pillar_na() (#273).