diff --git a/R/qenv-eval_code.R b/R/qenv-eval_code.R
index b8593a33f..14af1ae78 100644
--- a/R/qenv-eval_code.R
+++ b/R/qenv-eval_code.R
@@ -98,7 +98,14 @@ setMethod("eval_code", signature = c("qenv", "expression"), function(object, cod
   if (length(srcref)) {
     eval_code(object, code = paste(attr(code, "wholeSrcref"), collapse = "\n"))
   } else {
-    Reduce(eval_code, init = object, x = code)
+    Reduce(function(u, v) {
+      if (inherits(v, "=") && identical(typeof(v), "language")) {
+        # typeof(`=`) is language, but it doesn't dispatch on it, so we need to
+        # explicitly pass it as first class of the object
+        class(v) <- unique(c("language", class(v)))
+      }
+      eval_code(u, v)
+    }, init = object, x = code)
   }
 })
 
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-qenv_within.R b/tests/testthat/test-qenv_within.R
index b4e41d0c0..9853b4608 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-qenv_within.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-qenv_within.R
@@ -131,3 +131,21 @@ testthat::test_that("within run on qenv.error returns the qenv.error as is", {
 
   testthat::expect_identical(qe, qee)
 })
+
+testthat::describe("within run with `=`", {
+  testthat::it("single expression", {
+    q <- qenv()
+    q <- within(q, {
+      i = 1 # nolintr: assigment. styler: off.
+    })
+  })
+
+  testthat::it("multiple '=' expressions", {
+    q <- qenv()
+    q <- within(q, {
+      j = 2 # nolintr: assigment. styler: off.
+      i = 1 # nolintr: assigment. styler: off.
+    })
+    testthat::expect_equal(q$i, 1)
+  })
+})