I would first recommend upgrading to the latest version of R. I am running R 2.12.2 on Windows 7 and it seem to run fine:
> DT = data.table(x=rep(c("a","b","c"),each=3), y=c(1,3,6), v=1:9) > setkey(DT,x) > DT["a"] x y v [1,] a 1 1 [2,] a 3 2 [3,] a 6 3 On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 3:30 PM, yoda55 <arnaud.amsel...@gmail.com> wrote: > R.2.11.1 on Windows 7 > > When running data.table examples. >> DT = data.table(x=rep(c("a","b","c"),each=3), y=c(1,3,6), v=1:9) >> setkey(DT,x) >> DT["a"] > I get the following error message > Erreur dans seq.default(to = xlen, length = n) : > length must be non-negative number > > When running the test.data.table(), pretty much all the tests fail (see > below) > Test 8 Error in seq.default(to = xlen, length = n) : > length must be non-negative number > Test 9 Error in seq.default(to = xlen, length = n) : > length must be non-negative number > ..... > > Any help appreciated > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/prb-with-data-table-tp3454478p3454478.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.