`as.data.frame.data.table(x)` errors when `x` has no column names: `setalloccol`

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Issue type
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r
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data

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Start by reproducing the example in R, then trace as.data.frame.data.table(x) through setalloccol, the entry points named in the report. Done means converting a data.table with no column names succeeds without the allocation error, with regression coverage for this case.

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consistency duplicate

I ran into this interesting error when trying to convert a data.table without column names to a data frame.

library(data.table)
x <- data.table(mtcars)
colnames(x) <- NULL
as.data.frame(x)
#> Error in setalloccol(y): Internal error in alloccol: length of names (0) is not length of dt (11). Please report to the data.table issues tracker.
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