[datatable-help] fread numerics

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Tue Apr 15 05:59:01 CEST 2014


In light of the change in behavior of read.table / type.convert in R
3.1.0 (it now reads in numerics too long to be represented as factors
or strings whereas R 3.0.x read them in as numeric) it would be nice
if  fread had an argument which specified which way it acts.

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