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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><p abp="156">Hi all,</p><p abp="157"> </p><p abp="158">I've a data base in txt file, which contains approximately <strong abp="173"> </strong>1.5 million observations and 18 variables. The aspect of two of the observations</p><p abp="158">is the following:</p><p abp="158"> </p><p abp="158">345~X~99~30/10/1950~89000~784~ERVY LE CHATEL, RUE~9~AUXERRE~08500~410005~VISITE MEDICALE~20/03/1998~20~UROLOGIE~9~VISITES~5~</p><p abp="158"> </p><p abp="158">67895~J~102~28/05/1967~89000~359~CHATILLON SUR SEIENE, RUE~10~AUXERRE~08340~560025~ASSURANCE-CRÉDIT~15/09/1997~25~UROLOGIE~1~VISITES~5~</p><p abp="158"> </p><p abp="158">So, as you can see, the columns are separated by "~" symbol, but there is also other symbols: ",", "-", written accents, ... inside some descriptive variables. I execute:</p><p abp="158"> </p><p abp="158"><font face="Courier New">data <- fread('data.txt',autostart=60)</font></p><p abp="158"> </p><p abp="158">The R gives an error message in one row</p><p abp="158"> </p><p abp="158"><font face="Courier New" size="2" style="font-size: 10pt;" abp="174">Error en fread("data.txt", autostart = 60) : <br abp="175"> Expected sep (',') but '' ends field 1 on line 1 when detecting types:</font></p><p abp="158"><font size="2" abp="176"></font> </p><p abp="158"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">Please, anyone can help me?</font></p> </div></body>
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