FR: in dcast, with multiple value.var and a single fun.agg, don't put the fun in the col names

[franknarf1]

An example from SO: http://stackoverflow.com/a/38923405/

require(data.table)
data = data.table(
    var1 = c("a","b","c","b","d","e","f"),
    var2 = c("aa","bb","cc","dd","ee","ee","ff"),
    subtype = c("1","2","2","2","1","1","2"),
    type = c("A","A","A","A","B","B","B")
)
f = function(v) paste0(unique(v), collapse = "|")
dcast(data, type ~ subtype, value.var = c("var1", "var2"), fun = f)

#    type var1_f_1 var1_f_2 var2_f_1 var2_f_2
#1:    A        a      b|c       aa bb|cc|dd
#2:    B      d|e        f       ee       ff

The _f_ is somewhat redundant in the new column names. Worse, using an anonymous function, we'd see _function_. It would be preferable to just have names like var1_1, etc.

[arunsrinivasan]

Could you please add require(data.table) to the code as well? It'd be even easier to copy/paste. Thanks. I've edited it in.