Data.table: [R-Forge #4724] add quote = argument to fread

[arunsrinivasan]

Submitted by: Ben Marwick; Assigned to: Nobody; R-Forge link

I love fread for its speed, but I have some huge CSV files that are poorly formed and can't load into R without something like:

read.csv("my.csv", row.names = NULL, comment.char = "", header = TRUE,
stringsAsFactors = FALSE, colClasses= "character", encoding="utf-8",
quote = "")

I can't see an equivalent for fread except a note in the doc that says it's a known issue and not yet implemented.

I eagerly await the day of the implementation of quote handling!

thanks for all your amazing work on this package,

Ben

[DavidArenburg]

It would save me so much time if this would be ever implemented

[stevencb]

I would also like to see this feature. Thanks in advance.

[MathiasVersichele]

Seconding this request. Working with intermediary data frames really isn't an optimal solution...

[jangorecki]

+1
PS. filled #1109

[arunsrinivasan]

Closed the wrong issue.. argghhhh

[weetecklee]

yes, would certainly like to see quote handling in fread. it will surely help a great deal! thanks.

[arunsrinivasan]

Thanks for the report. More robust handling of quotes now in devel. Please upgrade and test.

[AbhishekSinghVerma]

"quote" in still missing data.table vignette under fread command cran.r-project.org/web/packages/data.table/data.table.pdf or in git rdocumentation.org/packages/data.table/versions/1.9.6/topics‌​/…? Is this enhancement slated for 1.9.7 or am I missing something?

[MichaelChirico]

1.9.7 is the development version under current release, and yes quote is
absent from 1.9.6. there are instructions for installing 1.9.7 on the wiki

On Oct 5, 2016 9:44 AM, "AbhishekSinghVerma" [email protected]
wrote:

"quote" in still missing data.table vignette under fread command
cran.r-project.org/web/packages/data.table/data.table.pdf or in git
rdocumentation.org/packages/data.table/versions/1.9.6/topics‌​/…? Is this
enhancement slated for 1.9.7 or am I missing something?

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[jangorecki]

@AbhishekSinghVerma you can find pretty up to date 1.9.7 fread manual here.