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key argument is ignored within setDT if DT is already a data.table #1169

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DavidArenburg opened this issue Jun 5, 2015 · 0 comments
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key argument is ignored within setDT if DT is already a data.table #1169

DavidArenburg opened this issue Jun 5, 2015 · 0 comments

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It's probably not a big deal, but sometimes you are not aware your object is already a data.table (like you've read it using fread) and this could be quite mind blowing until you realize what's going on

library(data.table)
DT <- data.table(A = 1:4, B = 5:8)
setDT(DT, key = "A")
key(DT)
## NULL

I think that a quick fix is just to add

 if (!is.null(key)) setkeyv(x, key)

after this line
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