I find QSV very helpful. el
On 08/04/2024 22:21, Dave Dixon wrote: > I solved the mystery, but not the problem. The problem is that > there's an unclosed quote somewhere in those 5 additional records I'm > trying to access. So read.csv is reading million-character fields. > It's slow at that. That mystery solved. > > However, the the problem persists: how to fix what is obvious to the > naked eye - a quote not adjacent to a comma - but that read.csv > can't handle. readLines followed by read.csv(text= ) works great > because, in that case, read.csv knows where the record terminates. > Meaning, read.csv throws an exception that I can catch and handle > with a quick and clean regex expression. > > Thanks, I'll take a look at vroom. [...] ______________________________________________ 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.
