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[R-Forge #5610] fread: handle multiple whitespace as delimiter #529
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Fixed in devel. Please upgrade and test. |
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Is there a way this could be achieved in data.table? |
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Submitted by: Matthew Forrest; Assigned to: Nobody; R-Forge link
This has come up in forums a couple of times. Basically it would be fantastic to be able to use sep="" in fread to use multiple whitespaces as the separator analogously to how it works in read.table. Sometimes one cannot get away from data files which have multiple spaces as column separators to make it easy for humans to read, but not so much for fread!
I know it is on Matt Dowle's radar since this stackoverflow post (which also has a handy workaround)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22229109/r-data-table-fread-command-how-to-read-large-files-with-irregular-separators
but I thought I would formalise it into a feature request here. Also, thanks for data.table, it is great!
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