<div dir="ltr"><div>> sessionInfo()</div><div>R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)</div><div>Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)</div><div><br></div><div>locale:</div><div>[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252</div>
<div>[4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 </div><div><br></div><div>attached base packages:</div><div>[1] grid stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base </div>
<div><br></div><div>other attached packages:</div><div>[1] reshape2_1.2.2 data.table_1.9.2 gridExtra_0.9.1 ggplot2_0.9.3.1 RGoogleDocs_0.7-0</div><div><br></div><div>loaded via a namespace (and not attached):</div>
<div> [1] colorspace_1.2-4 dichromat_2.0-0 digest_0.6.4 gtable_0.1.2 labeling_0.2 MASS_7.3-29 munsell_0.4.2 </div><div> [8] plyr_1.8.1 proto_0.3-10 RColorBrewer_1.0-5 Rcpp_0.11.0 RCurl_1.95-4.1 scales_0.2.3 stringr_0.6.2 </div>
<div>[15] tools_3.0.2 XML_3.98-1.1 </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Farrel Buchinsky<br>Google Voice Tel: (412) 567-7870<br></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Kevin Ushey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevinushey@gmail.com" target="_blank">kevinushey@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Works fine for me with data.table 1.9.1 on OS X. What is your sessionInfo()?<br>
<br>
Kevin<br>
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On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Farrel Buchinsky <<a href="mailto:fjbuch@gmail.com">fjbuch@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Any idea why I am getting a data.table with headers only and zero data? How<br>
> can I get around the problem.<br>
><br>
> fread("<a href="http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/zscore/statage.csv" target="_blank">http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/zscore/statage.csv</a>", verbose=T)<br>
> fails<br>
> read.csv("<a href="http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/zscore/statage.csv" target="_blank">http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/zscore/statage.csv</a>") succeeds<br>
><br>
>> statagecdc <-<br>
>> fread("<a href="http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/zscore/statage.csv" target="_blank">http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/zscore/statage.csv</a>", verbose=T)<br>
> trying URL '<a href="http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/zscore/statage.csv" target="_blank">http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/zscore/statage.csv</a>'<br>
> Content type 'application/octet-stream' length 66087 bytes (64 Kb)<br>
> opened URL<br>
> downloaded 64 Kb<br>
><br>
> Input contains no \n. Taking this to be a filename to open<br>
> File opened, filesize is 6.2E-05B<br>
> File is opened and mapped ok<br>
> Detected eol as \r only (no \n afterwards). An old Mac 9 standard,<br>
> discontinued in 2002 according to Wikipedia.<br>
> Using line 1 to detect sep (the last non blank line in the first<br>
> 'autostart') ... sep=','<br>
> Found 14 columns<br>
> First row with 14 fields occurs on line 1 (either column names or first row<br>
> of data)<br>
> All the fields on line 1 are character fields. Treating as the column names.<br>
> Byte after header row is eof or eol, 0 data rows present.<br>
> Type codes: 00000000000000 (first 5 rows)<br>
> Type codes: 00000000000000 (after applying colClasses and integer64)<br>
> Type codes: 00000000000000 (after applying drop or select (if supplied)<br>
> Allocating 14 column slots (14 - 0 NULL)<br>
> 0.000s ( 0%) Memory map (rerun may be quicker)<br>
> 0.000s ( 0%) sep and header detection<br>
> 0.001s (100%) Count rows (wc -l)<br>
> 0.000s ( 0%) Column type detection (first, middle and last 5 rows)<br>
> 0.000s ( 0%) Allocation of 0x14 result (xMB) in RAM<br>
> 0.000s ( 0%) Reading data<br>
> 0.000s ( 0%) Allocation for type bumps (if any), including gc time if<br>
> triggered<br>
> 0.000s ( 0%) Coercing data already read in type bumps (if any)<br>
> 0.000s ( 0%) Changing na.strings to NA<br>
> 0.001s Total<br>
><br>
><br>
> Thanks a lot.<br>
><br>
> Farrel Buchinsky<br>
> Google Voice Tel: (412) 567-7870<br>
><br>
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