Works fine for me with data.table 1.9.1 on OS X. What is your sessionInfo()?
Kevin On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Farrel Buchinsky <[email protected]> wrote: > Any idea why I am getting a data.table with headers only and zero data? How > can I get around the problem. > > fread("http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/zscore/statage.csv";, verbose=T) > fails > read.csv("http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/zscore/statage.csv";) succeeds > >> statagecdc <- >> fread("http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/zscore/statage.csv";, verbose=T) > trying URL 'http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/zscore/statage.csv' > Content type 'application/octet-stream' length 66087 bytes (64 Kb) > opened URL > downloaded 64 Kb > > Input contains no \n. Taking this to be a filename to open > File opened, filesize is 6.2E-05B > File is opened and mapped ok > Detected eol as \r only (no \n afterwards). An old Mac 9 standard, > discontinued in 2002 according to Wikipedia. > Using line 1 to detect sep (the last non blank line in the first > 'autostart') ... sep=',' > Found 14 columns > First row with 14 fields occurs on line 1 (either column names or first row > of data) > All the fields on line 1 are character fields. Treating as the column names. > Byte after header row is eof or eol, 0 data rows present. > Type codes: 00000000000000 (first 5 rows) > Type codes: 00000000000000 (after applying colClasses and integer64) > Type codes: 00000000000000 (after applying drop or select (if supplied) > Allocating 14 column slots (14 - 0 NULL) > 0.000s ( 0%) Memory map (rerun may be quicker) > 0.000s ( 0%) sep and header detection > 0.001s (100%) Count rows (wc -l) > 0.000s ( 0%) Column type detection (first, middle and last 5 rows) > 0.000s ( 0%) Allocation of 0x14 result (xMB) in RAM > 0.000s ( 0%) Reading data > 0.000s ( 0%) Allocation for type bumps (if any), including gc time if > triggered > 0.000s ( 0%) Coercing data already read in type bumps (if any) > 0.000s ( 0%) Changing na.strings to NA > 0.001s Total > > > Thanks a lot. > > Farrel Buchinsky > Google Voice Tel: (412) 567-7870 > > _______________________________________________ > datatable-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/datatable-help _______________________________________________ datatable-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/datatable-help
