merge.data.table throws error for `<` in variable names
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Start by reproducing the example with merge.data.table on a data.table whose variable name contains angle brackets, then inspect the reported [.data.table lookup failure. Done means either merging succeeds for these names or the error message clearly explains that angle brackets are unsupported; compare with the data.frame behavior shown in the issue.
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Description
an error is thrown if one wants to merge a data.table with < or > in its variable names.
> dt <- data.table('x <TBD>' = 1:2)
> merge(dt, dt)
Error in `[.data.table`(y, x, nomatch = if (all.x) NA else 0, on = by, : Column(s) [x ] not found in x
using merge(dt, dt, by = 'x <TBD>') results in the same error. If angle brackets are not supported by data.table, I would suggest adapting the error message.
sidenote: this works with data.frames
> df <- data.frame('x <TBD>' = 1:2)
> merge(df, df)
x..TBD.
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