Fix incorrect keying of by= results involving functions of keys #6708
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Closes #5583.
In principal this could be a breaking change for some user that has
by = .(a = foo(a))
wherea
is the key andfoo()
is weakly increasing.If we find any such case in revdeps, I will bump this change to 1.18.0 (there is a known workaround for the bug, i.e. use
keyby=
, and the bug appears to have taken quite some time to surface) and push the breaking change in next release. As a breaking change, the fix is also trivial (switch tokeyby=
).