[datatable-help] fread on thorn delimitted file

[tjonesd289]

Hello,

I have server logs with thorn ( þ , or '\xc3\xbe' ) delimited files. They
are quite large and I would prefer to open them with fread (I would like to
use data.table to look at the data). However, fread says it does not support
2 byte delimiters. I can delimit with just '\xc3' [ a = fread(MY_FILE,
sep='\xc3') ] , but all values in every column at the first ends up with the
'\xbe' attached (i.e. the second byte of the thorn character).

Is there any work around to this? I have yet to find a way to open these
files with R, though the is a stackoverflow answer saying it is possible.

Thanks!




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