Changes in version 0.1.1 (2023-08-25)                  

User visible changes

  - txt2hdd: argument path now accepts vectors and even patterns. All
    files matching the pattern will be imported to the hdd format.
  - txt2hdd: gains the arguments encoding and locale.
  - txt2hdd: messages are more informative, in particular import time is
    reported.

Minor bug fixes

  - Fixed a small bug in the function guess_col_types when the data
    contained dates.

Other

  - update the maintainer's email address

                 Changes in version 0.1.0 (2019-11-06)                  

First version

  - This package is an effort to provide a simple way to deal with out
    of memory data sets within R. The tasks \pkg{hdd} does is to import
    and perfom simple manipulations: like subsetting, creating new
    variables, etc.
  - As in other data base management systems (DBMS), the data is split
    into several chunks that fit in memory, and operations are performed
    "chunk-wise". These operations are hidden to the user.
  - Why creating this package? First, it avoids having to switch to
    alternative software like DBMS to deal with out of memory data sets
    (you can also use DBMS in R but it is cumbersome). Second, it allows
    the user to use the full power of R to create complex new variables.
    Finally, and maybe most importantly, the syntax is very simple and
    requires little effort from the user.