Data.table: Operador de asignación: = cambia el cuerpo de una función contenedora

¡Hola!

Ejemplo mínimo reproducible :

library(data.table)

f = function(flag = FALSE) {
  dt1 = data.table(a = 1)
  dt2 = data.table(a = 1)
  dt3 = dt1[, .(a, b = 0)]

  print(body(f))
  if (flag) dt3[dt2, b := 999, on = "a"]
  print(body(f))

  return(invisible(dt3))
}

f(flag = FALSE)
f(flag = TRUE)

> f(flag = FALSE)
{
    dt1 = data.table(a = 1)
    dt2 = data.table(a = 1)
    dt3 = dt1[, .(a, b = 0)]
    print(body(f))
    if (flag) 
        dt3[dt2, `:=`(b, 999), on = "a"]
    print(body(f))
    return(invisible(dt3))
}
{
    dt1 = data.table(a = 1)
    dt2 = data.table(a = 1)
    dt3 = dt1[, .(a, b = 0)]
    print(body(f))
    if (flag) 
        dt3[dt2, `:=`(b, 999), on = "a"]
    print(body(f))
    return(invisible(dt3))
}

> f(flag = TRUE)
{
    dt1 = data.table(a = 1)
    dt2 = data.table(a = 1)
    dt3 = dt1[, .(a, b = 0)]
    print(body(f))
    if (flag) 
        dt3[dt2, `:=`(b, 999), on = "a"]
    print(body(f))
    return(invisible(dt3))
}
{
    dt1 = data.table(a = 1)
    dt2 = data.table(a = 1)
    dt3 = dt1[, .(a, b = 999)]
    print(body(f))
    if (flag) 
        dt3[dt2, `:=`(b, 999), on = "a"]
    print(body(f))
    return(invisible(dt3))
}

Como puede ver, después de asignar (: =) un nuevo valor a la columna "b" (cuando el indicador es VERDADERO), el cuerpo de la función "f" se cambia en la línea "dt3 = ..." ("b = 0 "se sustituye por" b = 999 "). El resultado de la ejecución de la función será diferente cuando se ejecute con el valor de la bandera FALSE.

Salida de sessionInfo () :

R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7600)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Russian_Russia.1251  LC_CTYPE=Russian_Russia.1251    LC_MONETARY=Russian_Russia.1251
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                    LC_TIME=Russian_Russia.1251    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] data.table_1.12.3

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.5.1 tools_3.5.1    yaml_2.2.0