Arun, what does "within the frame of data.table" mean?

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015, 19:17 Arunkumar Srinivasan <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Juan,
>
> `:=` is designed to be used only within the frame of data.table.
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Juan Manuel Truppia <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm using data.table inside my own packages. I'm having some trouble
>> using data.table functions on my .onLoad method.
>> I'm actually depending (not importing) data.table, but even then, I can't
>> get := to work in .onLoad.
>> I'm using the `:=`(a = x, b = y) version, and getting
>>
>> Error in `:=`(a = x) :
>> Check that is.data.table(DT) == TRUE. Otherwise, := and `:=`(...) are
>> defined for use in j, once only and in particular ways. See help(":=").
>>
>> If I comment that, and then run it from the console after the package is
>> loaded, it works.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
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