Hi all, Here's the link to #4990: https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=4990&group_id=240&atid=975
I'm not sure there should be any warning here. A warning message is created in `:=` if the RHS that's assigned is "bigger" in length than the LHS. For ex: dt <- data.table(a=rep(1:2, c(5,2))) dt[, b := c(1,2,3), by=a] # creates warning that RHS is of length 3 and LHS is of length 2 for a ==2. Warning message: In `[.data.table`(dt, , `:=`(b, c(1, 2, 3)), by = a) : RHS 1 is length 3 (greater than the size (2) of group 2). The last 1 element(s) will be discarded. Other than that, there need not be any warning because it's being recycled. For example, x <- 1:5 x[c(TRUE, FALSE)] # [1] 1 3 5. Here, the number of elements of x are odd, but the recycling produces no warning. It may not exactly be the same issue, but to give an idea of silent recycling. What do you guys think? Arun
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