fread and column with a trailing backslash

Question

I have a problem with fread() reading a column of directory paths using \"\\\" as the directory separator. The issue is that the trailing directory separator throws an erro

Answer 1

Now fixed in v1.9.3 on GitHub.

• fread() now accepts trailing backslash in quoted fields. Thanks to user2970844 for highlighting.

$ cat example.csv
file,size
"windows\user\",123

> require(data.table)
> fread("example.csv")
              file size
1: windows\\user\\  123
> read.csv("example.csv")
             file size
1 windows\\user\\  123
>