The ‘v’ in `v <- ‘x’` bears no relation to column name ‘v’. I understand 
how/why this can be confusing. Perhaps we should rename that to `keycol <- ‘x’` 
or something like that.. Please file an issue, and even better as a PR.

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Arun

On 21 December 2015 at 12:16:16, Douglas Clark ([email protected]) wrote:

In the *Example* section of data.table-package documentation, `v` is used as  
a column name, and later a variable `v`<-"X" is defined and used in  
setkeyv(DT,v) to set the key to column `x`. Then `v` is again used as column  
name. This is confusing to me. Is the double use of `v` as both column name  
and variable intentional? See the extract of the Examples section below:  






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