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@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ CHANGES
   If you recode into a numeric variable, and one of the recode values is `NA`,
   you no longer need to use `NA_real_` for numeric `NA` values.
 
+* `by` was added as an alias for `id_cols` in `data_to_wide()`,
+  following the renaming of other arguments in order to gain
+  consistency across packages.
+
 * Improved documentation for some functions.
 
 BUG FIXES