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Support adding a new sub-column via NestedFrame.reduce() #347

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Feature request

It would be great, if .reduce() could add a new sub-column directly to existing nested column. Example with a toy UDF:

from nested_pandas.datasets import generate_dataset

nf = generate_dataset(5, 4)
nf.reduce(lambda flux: {"nested.x": flux - flux.mean()}, "nested.flux", append_columns=True)

Currently, this would produce the second "nested" column, while it would be really nice if it would append a new sub-column directly to exiting nested column.

My current workaround is

new = nf.reduce(lambda flux: {"new.x": flux - flux.mean()}, "nested.flux")
nf["nested.x"] = new["new.x"]

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