Agreed, well spotted. Please enter a :
bug.report(package="data.table").
Matthew
"Chris Neff" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Quick example:
>
>> DT <- data.table(x=1:10,y=1:10)
>
>> key(DT) <- "x"
>
>> names(DT) <- c("a", "b", "c")
>
>> key(DT)
> [1] "x"
>
>
> This doesn't seem to be right. An error happens if I do some things:
>
>> x[J(5)]
> Error in `[.data.table`(x, J(5)) :
> sorted columns of x don't exist in the colnames. data.table is not a
> valid data.table
>
> But other things work fine still:
>
>> x[a == 5, ]
> [1,] 5 6 6
>
>
> When names get changed, the key names should be updated to reflect that,
> no?
>
> -Chris
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