Rdatatable / Rdatatable/data.table

Multiple threads error in MAC: protect(): protection stack overflow

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Description

Following the installation guide for Mac users, I've installed data.table package to support multiple threads computing.
When I run the following code:

data[, lag.lct := shift(mark, n = 1, type = "lag"), by = h.id]

an error like this occurs Error: protect(): protection stack overflow.

The data above has over 5m rows. If I split the data into a subset with about 1m rows, the error will not be reported.

But when I remove data.table and reinstall it without OpenMP enabled compiler setting which means data.table can only run in single thread mode, the code above can work well even for the full data with 5m rows. I've no idea if this error has to do with the multiple thread setting.

# Output of sessionInfo()
R version 4.1.2 (2021-11-01) -- "Bird Hippie"
System Version: macOS 12.0.1
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)

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Research direction

No source file or test is named. Start by reproducing the shift operation on the reported macOS and R versions with OpenMP enabled, then compare it with the single-threaded build. Done means identifying whether multithreading causes the protection-stack overflow and adding an appropriate regression test or documented resolution.

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Domain
data, performance
Issue type
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4/5
Estimated time
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Newbie friendliness
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