negate on individual key columns

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r
Domain
data

Research direction

Start with the linked Stack Overflow example and reproduce the data.table expressions shown in the issue, including negation of NA and numeric key values. Define done as supporting the requested not() behavior while retaining fast binary searches for those expressions; the issue names no source file or test to begin from.

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Description

feature request

According to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29330106/filter-data-table-for-is-na

It would be nice to have a not() function that allows fast binary searches for expressions like :
dt[!is.na(A) & B!=1]

i.e.
dt[.(not(NA_Integer_), not(1))]

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