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[fread] Error message is not displayed when a field ends with percent sign #2287
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Could you please provide more details about your system (
sessionInfo()). The example that you provided seems to work correctly on my machine:> fread("name,id\nfoo,1\nbar%\n") Error in fread("name,id\nfoo,1\nbar%\n") : Line 2 has too few fields when detecting types. Use fill=TRUE to pad with NA. Expecting 2 fields but found 1: <<bar>>sessionInfo() # R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30) # Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) # Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1 # # Matrix products: default # # locale: # [1] LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252 LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252 LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252 # [4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=French_France.1252 # # attached base packages: # [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base # # other attached packages: # [1] data.table_1.10.5 # # loaded via a namespace (and not attached): # [1] compiler_3.4.1 tools_3.4.1
If it can help, this is the error I get with a slightly different command:
fread("name,id\nfoo,1\nb%ar\n") # Error in fread("name,id\nfoo,1\nb%ar\n") : # Line 2 has too few fields when detecting types. Use fill=TRUE to pad with NA. Expecting 2 fields but found 1: <<b0x1.1812000360018p+711r>>
As you can see
%ais replaced by0x1.1812000360018p+711in the message.Note: On my Linux system everything works properly.
Thanks Etienne, this was helpful.
Seems like this problem appears on Windows / MacOS machines only. We'll try to resolve it asap because there appears to be a potential for a crash, not merely a poor error message.Reacted by etienne-s- added this to the milestone
on Aug 9, 2017
Minimal example, tested on both CRAN and dev versions: