<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">I’ve created an issue here on not having to need “with=FALSE” for subsetting things the data.frame way: <a href="https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/1188">https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/1188</a></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">It’d be nice to know what others think about this. I believe it’s a hinderance to new users trying to learn data.table, being confronted with a difference in the most basic data.frame operation up-front. And there’s no real harm in doing it.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Let us know what you think :-)</div><br><div id="bloop_sign_1434877009552482048" class="bloop_sign"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">-- <br>Arun</div></div></body></html>