[datatable-help] R-devel breaks data.table

[Matt Dowle]

Hi Kevin,

Yes R-devel has a new check as of Friday.  No problem in data.table, 
just R getting stricter which is a good.

Fixed and v1.8.11 (r1108) works again on latest R-devel 2014-02-01 r64910.

Thanks,
Matt


On 01/02/14 19:50, Kevin Ushey wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> See the commit here:
>
> https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/d0aece456bae5377245eb550a7434ba517be12fe
>
> Now if I run the following code, I see an error:
>
> library(data.table)
>
> DT <- data.table(x=1, y=2, z=3)
> DT[, k := 4]
>
> Error in `[.data.table`(DT, , `:=`(k, 4)) :
>    attempt to set index 3/3 in SET_STRING_ELT
>
> Is this R-devel being overly picky about data.table's overallocation,
> or is this a bug in data.table?
>
> This is with data.table 1.8.11 from R-forge (version from yesterday).
>
> R Under development (unstable) (2014-02-01 r64910)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/C/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] data.table_1.8.11    knitr_1.5.15         devtools_1.4.1.99
> BiocInstaller_1.13.3
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>   [1] compiler_3.1.0 digest_0.6.4   evaluate_0.5.1 formatR_0.10
> httr_0.2       memoise_0.1
>   [7] parallel_3.1.0 plyr_1.8       RCurl_1.95-4.1 reshape2_1.2.2
> stringr_0.6.2  tools_3.1.0
> [13] whisker_0.3-2
>
> -Kevin
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