R data.table ':=' works in direct call, but same function in a package fails

Question

Using R\'s data.table package,

This works:

instruction = \"a = data.table(name=1:3, value=1:3, blah=1:3); a[,c(\'value\', \'blah\'):=NULL]\"
eval(parse(t         


        

Answer 1

I had same problem and I solved it adding data.table to Imports and Depends:. My data.table version is 1.9.6