Steps sometimes destroy the epi_df

[dajmcdon]

• step_epi_naomit() is one such. step_naomit() calls tibble::as_tibble() at the end.

Consider reconstructing the epi_df after each step inside the bake/prep loop.

[dsweber2]

I was running into this in adjustAhead with step_mutate; I think most non-epipredict steps will do this.

My solution for this was to put the metadata in at prep time, but that isn't exactly ideal, as there may be different metadata at later points

[dajmcdon]

This is potentially impossible to fix. Any call to bake() will destroy the epi_df at the end of the loop (unless we clobber recipes:::bake.recipe().

Reason:

bake(epi_recipe) -> recipes:::bake.recipe() -> ... -> hardhat::recompose(new_data,...) -> hardhat::coerce_to_tibble() -> hardhat::hardhat_new_tibble()

This last drops the class without recourse. I don't suspect they will be willing to change this behaviour: tidymodels/hardhat#230.