Error in `:=`(pvalue, NA)

[goterm]

Hi, I want to test ALASCA on my longidutinal data but it fails even with the dummy example provided in the examples (https://andjar.github.io/ALASCA/articles/ALASCA.html). after running:

df[, time := paste0("t_", time)]

 res <- ALASCA(
+   df,
+   value ~ time + (1|id)
+ )

INFO [2026-03-13 17:50:17] Initializing ALASCA (v1.0.19, 2026-01-16)
WARN [2026-03-13 17:50:17] Guessing effects: time
INFO [2026-03-13 17:50:17] Will use linear mixed models!
INFO [2026-03-13 17:50:17] Will use Rfast!
WARN [2026-03-13 17:50:17] The time column is used for stratification
WARN [2026-03-13 17:50:17] Converting character columns to factors
INFO [2026-03-13 17:50:17] Scaling data with sdall ...
INFO [2026-03-13 17:50:17] Calculating LMM coefficients

I get the following error:

Error in :=(pvalue, NA) :
Check that is.data.table(DT) == TRUE. Otherwise, := is defined for use in j, once only and in particular ways. See help(":=", "data.table"). A common reason for this error is allocating a new column in j and using <- instead of :=; e.g., DT[, new_col <- 1] should be DT[, new_col := 1]. Another is using := in a multi-statement {...} block; please use := as the only statement in j.

have you encountered something like this before? thanks in advance for your help!

[andjar]

Thanks for reaching out! I haven't had that problem, but it could be related to #18 and have something to do with how I've imported the data.table package; I've tried to push an update to version 1.0.20 which follows the recommended method (avoiding Depends). Please give it a try and let me know if anything breaks:)