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fread option to skip lines with format errors (with warning) #711
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I'd like to add my vote for this enhancement. I have a commonly used csv data file that includes a disclaimer line at the end of the file. Because the last line is a long text chunk without any delimiters,
freadthrows an error when trying to load the file. My current workaround is to usereadLinesto determine the number of lines in the file and then specifynrowsforfread.Reacted by karlrohe- added this to the milestone
on Mar 6, 2016 This would be great!
Solutions for some cases of this may be covered by #856
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on May 10, 2018
Perhaps also to skip particular rows or blocks of rows for some reason (even if they are valid).
Suggested by Darius here : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24424928/fatal-error-using-fread-in-rstudio#comment37798442_24424928