Hi I have been using "fread" utility of "data.table" packge .. on a dataset of about 20 million rows. It's a fantastic package to read datasets. Thank you, Matt D.
However, I am faced with a peculiar instance of certain numbers in a column being transformed. In the dataset, a column has values ranging from 1 to 9########## (nchar(x)=11, e.g. 98765432109). After using "fread" to read the dataset, values in all the columns are displayed correctly upto the first 1000 rows. If "fread" is applied for reading >1000 rows of the total of 20Million rows, the values in only this (column (having wide range of values) are displayed as x.xxxxxxxe-3yy. (e.g. 3.5639877e-324) I tried reading all the columns as "character" and didn't help. Would highly appreciate your assistance! Thanks so much in advance. Best regards, Santosh [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.