Hello, today I had to load a file which contained integers and on some lines nothing. data.table:::fread seems to cast the nothings into integer64.
So I had to use colClasses (and then specifiy the whole 20 columns just for this column type that I wanted to be loaded as a character to be then casted as a regular integer) >From my experience with fread (which is the only function I am using now), loading as integer64 are more often a problem than the other way, this is because it is not yet available to be used in analysis (not as a key...) So may I humbly suggest the parameter integer64 in fread be changed to "character" as default, until the parameter is fully implemented ? -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/integer64-and-fread-tp4668548.html Sent from the datatable-help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ datatable-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/datatable-help
