[R-Forge #5714] DT[, j, with=FALSE] errors when j is of length 0 - regression in 1.9.3

[arunsrinivasan]

Submitted by: Arun ; Assigned to: Arun ; R-Forge link

This is a regression due to recent changes to [.data.table, I think. Basically,

data.table(1:10)[, -1L, with=FALSE] should return null data.table, but instead errors with lhs not found - it's in the wrong place (much further than where it should've already stopped).