[datatable-help] assigning POSIXlt object to a data.table column

[Erik Iverson]

Hello,

Hope all is well with everyone, just wondering if this is a data.table
bug or a bug in my understanding:

> DT <- data.table(x = 1)
> DT$test <- as.POSIXlt(Sys.Date())
Warning message:
In `[<-.data.table`(x, j = name, value = value) :
  Supplied 9 items to be assigned to 1 items of column 'test' (8 unused)

Thanks!
--Erik

sessionInfo()
R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] wordcloud_2.4      RColorBrewer_1.0-5 Rcpp_0.10.3        tm_0.5-8.3
[5] ggplot2_0.9.3.1    zoo_1.7-9          data.table_1.8.8   XML_3.96-1.1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] colorspace_1.2-2 compiler_3.0.0   dichromat_2.0-0  digest_0.6.3
 [5] grid_3.0.0       gtable_0.1.2     labeling_0.1     lattice_0.20-15
 [9] MASS_7.3-26      munsell_0.4      plyr_1.8         proto_0.3-10
[13] reshape2_1.2.2   scales_0.2.3     slam_0.1-28      stringr_0.6.2
[17] tools_3.0.0