<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Could you try it with the github version of data.table? It seems to load fine by specifying separator on 1.9.3.</div> <div id="bloop_sign_1406564764440134912" class="bloop_sign"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">Arun</div></div> <div style="color:black"><br>From: <span style="color:black">Frank S.</span> <a href="mailto:f_j_rod@hotmail.com">f_j_rod@hotmail.com</a><br>Reply: <span style="color:black">Frank S.</span> <a href="mailto:f_j_rod@hotmail.com">f_j_rod@hotmail.com</a><br>Date: <span style="color:black">July 28, 2014 at 6:25:32 PM</span><br>To: <span style="color:black">datatable-help@lists.r-forge.r-project.org</span> <a href="mailto:datatable-help@lists.r-forge.r-project.org">datatable-help@lists.r-forge.r-project.org</a>, <span style="color:black">my.r.help@gmail.com</span> <a href="mailto:my.r.help@gmail.com">my.r.help@gmail.com</a><br>Subject: <span style="color:black"> [datatable-help] FW: fread statement for a long data table <br></span></div><br> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div class="hmmessage"><div></div><div>
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<p abp="469">Hi Michael,</p>
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<p abp="482">As you suggest, I execute:</p>
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<p abp="484"><font face="Courier New" abp="485">> data
<- fread('data.txt',sep='~')</font></p>
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<p abp="488">But it still appears an (incomplete) error
message:</p>
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Error en fread("data.txt", sep = "~") : Expected sep ('~') but
'</font><br abp="492"></p>
<p abp="493">I do not know the reason.<br abp="494"></p>
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