[datatable-help] Bug #4990 regarding

[Arunkumar Srinivasan]

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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