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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hi<br><br>I'm finding data.table excellent for processing of significant numbers of large files. Trying out the latest build I'm seeing some problems (perhaps around the new boolean support?)<br><br>Loading my file with a basic call to fread() results in the error:<br><br><span style='font: 13px/15px "Lucida Console"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(225, 226, 229);' class="ecxApple-style-span"><pre style='line-height: 1.2; font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 10pt !important; white-space: pre-wrap !important; outline-style: none;' class="ecxGNVMTOMCABB" tabIndex="0"><span style="color: rgb(197, 6, 11);" class="ecxGNVMTOMCLAB ecxace_constant">Error in fread("file.txt") :
Expected sep (' ') but 'T' ends field 25 on line 2 when detecting types: 8878 1 1 24 4 AFY057250G12 NA 2012-07-01 2013-06-30 1e+05 49999100.7232666 1.58e+08 0 33176.21 978 NA 1 EUR 0 EUR 0 EUR TERRINC HXG T</span></pre></span> <BR>Happy to provide the full file if you let me know how. First couple of rows reproduced below (file is tab delimited):<BR> <BR>Key Id AKey PKey Peril PNum LName EDt ExDt PAPt PL PPof PD Prem CurrencyKey RK IsV CurrencyCd minDedAmt minDedCur maxDedAmt maxDedCur userIdTxt1 userIdTxt2 userIdTxt3 userIdTxt4 PStat<br>8878 1 1 24 4 AFY05 NA 2012-07-01 2013-06-30 1e+05 49999100.7232666 1.58e+08 0 33176.21 978 NA 1 EUR 0 EUR 0 EUR TERRINC HXG T TO NA<br>8878 1 3 93 4 AFJ02 NA 2012-03-31 2014-03-30 150000 3.5e+07 1.4e+08 0 3688.44 840 NA 1 USD 0 USD 0 USD TERRINC JGP T TO NA<br>8878 1 6 95 4 AFY08 NA 2012-04-08 2013-04-07 1e+05 29999983.4435654 336907000 0 0 826 NA 1 GBP 0 GBP 0 GBP TERRINC SPT T TU NA<br>8878 1 7 17 4 AFR1 NA 2012-07-12 2013-06-30 7500000 5e+07 5e+08 0 10319.34 840 NA 1 USD 0 USD 0 USD TERREXC JGP T TO NA<br><br><font color="#444444">Many thanks for your efforts<br><br>Simon</font><BR> </div></body>
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