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fread incorrectly skips header on this file #1625

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mattdowle opened this issue Apr 5, 2016 · 1 comment
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fread incorrectly skips header on this file #1625

mattdowle opened this issue Apr 5, 2016 · 1 comment
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@mattdowle
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fread("http://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/crash-analysis-system-data/docs/crash-data-2014.csv") :
Starting data input on line 2 and discarding line 1 because it has too few or too many items to be column names or data: "TLA NAME","CRASH ROAD","CRASH DIST","CRASH DIRN","INTSN","SIDE ROAD","CRASH ID","CRASH DATE","CRASH DOW","CRASH TIME","MVMT","VEHICLES","CAUSES","OBJECTS STRUCK","ROAD CURVE","ROAD WET","LIGHT","WTHRa","JUNC TYPE","TRAF CTRL","ROAD MARK","SPD LIM","CRASH FATAL CNT","CRASH SEV CNT","CRASH MIN CNT","PERS AGE1","PERS AGE2","EASTING","NORTHING"

From : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28100868/download-file-inserts-an-extra-cr-after-each-crlf

@mattdowle mattdowle added this to the v1.9.8 milestone Apr 5, 2016
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Try it again with fill = TRUE.

Perhaps that should be added to the warning message. Or we should load length(header) number of columns by default, and provide the warning that informs about fill=TRUE.

Are you going to work on this? If not, I'd prefer it to be moved to v2.0.0.

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