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Bug: Improper use of order causes R session crash #1531

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MichaelChirico opened this issue Feb 10, 2016 · 0 comments
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Bug: Improper use of order causes R session crash #1531

MichaelChirico opened this issue Feb 10, 2016 · 0 comments
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DT = data.table(x=rep(c("b","a","c"),each=3), y=c(1,3,6), v=1:9)
DT[order(-x, "D")] #KERPLOOEY

Obviously this is improper use of data.table -- I was just trying to figure out what code is called when DT[order(x)] is run.

But an implosion as opposed to an error / warning seems a bit drastic.
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