`sortByCol()` fails in BBmisc 1.12

This caused an error in one of the {mlr} tests. cc @mllg

library(data.table)
library(BBmisc)
#> 
#> Attaching package: 'BBmisc'
#> The following object is masked from 'package:base':
#> 
#>     isFALSE

DT <- data.table(
  A = sample(3, 10, TRUE),
  B = sample(letters[1:3], 10, TRUE)
)

sortByCol(DT, "A")
#> Error in `[.data.table`(x, , col, drop = FALSE): j (the 2nd argument inside [...]) is a single symbol but column name 'col' is not found. Perhaps you intended DT[, ..col]. This difference to data.frame is deliberate and explained in FAQ 1.1.

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Session info

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AFAICS

https://github.com/berndbischl/BBmisc/blob/8f9c97c76123c2a187da2c57e012cd39a23e7cfb/R/sortByCol.R#L24

should be

 args = as.list(x[, ..col, drop = FALSE])

berndbischl / BBmisc

`sortByCol()` fails in BBmisc 1.12 #92