[datatable-help] head.data.table does not support negative arguments?

[Matthew Dowle]

Yes, known and already filed. Thanks.
Matthew

On 24.04.2013 20:25, Sam Steingold wrote:
> is this a bug?
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>> head(1:10,-3)
> [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
>> head(data.frame(a=1:5,b=5:9),-2)
>   a b
> 1 1 5
> 2 2 6
> 3 3 7
>> head(data.table(a=1:5,b=5:9),-2)
> Error in seq_len(min(n, nrow(x))) :
>   argument must be coercible to non-negative integer
> Calls: head -> head.data.table
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