Improve melt error message for invalid measure.vars (#6512) #7549
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Summary
This Pull Request addresses issue #6512 by making the error message in
melt.data.tablemore informative when a user provides column names inmeasure.varsthat do not exist in the dataset.Changes
measure.vars. It usessetdiff()to identify exactly which variables are missing from the data and reports them specifically.Impact
Instead of a generic:
Error: One or more values in 'measure.vars' is invalid.Users will now see:
Error: One or more values in 'measure.vars' is invalid; please fix by removing [z1]This change improves the developer experience by pinpointing the exact typo or missing column in the function call.
Closes #6512