fread and a quoted multi-line column value

Question

> fread(\'col1,col2\\n\')
Empty data.table (0 rows) of 2 cols: col1,col2
> fread(\'col1,col2\\n5,4\')
   col1 col2
1:    5    4
> fread(\'col1,col2\\n5,\"4\         


        

Answer 1

UPDATE: Now fixed in v1.9.3 on GitHub :

• fread() now accepts line breaks inside quoted fields. Thanks to Clayton Stanley for highlighting.

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This error has been reported before and it's on the list to do. But what's new here is the \n inside the quotes. I hadn't realised that was a use case giving rise to the error.

Many thanks for reporting. It'll be fixed.

Similar question but not exactly the same here :

data.table::fread and Unbalanced "

and the bug report is here :

https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/?group_id=240&atid=975&func=detail&aid=2694