[R-Forge #5444] eval(parse is not working in (complex) j-expressions

[arunsrinivasan]

Submitted by: Eduard Antonyan; Assigned to: Nobody; R-Forge link

Here's an example:

rm(dt)
rm(dt1)
dt = data.table()
dt[, {dt1 = data.table(a = 1:4); eval(parse(text = 'dt1[, a := 2]'))}]

Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object 'dt1' not found

It works fine without the eval/parse:

dt[, {dt1 = data.table(a = 1:4); dt1[, a := 2]}]

old and bad example, left here for reference

dt = data.table()
dt[, {eval(parse(text = 'print("boo")')); NULL}]

NULL

Pretty sure this is a recently introduced bug and it used to work before.