[R-Forge #5662] Implement interval joins

[arunsrinivasan]

Submitted by: Arun ; Assigned to: Nobody; R-Forge link

The functionality is very similar to findOverlaps function from IRanges package, except that we'll have the option to return the join result, or the matching indices.

Types of overlaps:

• any
• within
• equal
• start
• end

Arguments for 'mult':

• all
• first
• last

Additional arguments:

• minoverlap
• maxgap
• which
• nomatch
• ignore.self

[vlsi]

I've just updated my data.table and noticed this feature in NEWS section.

Thank you for your work.
This is amazing.

[arunsrinivasan]

@vlsi thanks!

[kickbox]

Looking forward to the implementation of maxgap and minoverlap functions.