Using read.csv with a symlinked file
问题 What I Am Trying To Do My source file is very large and I want to avoid copying it into other folders. I decided to create a symlink to the large file and want to use read.csv to read in the file. Folder structure project1/data/source-file.csv project2/data/alias-to-source-file.csv What Went Wrong Reading in the source file works perfectly, but when I try to read in the symlink, I get the following error: line 1 appears to contain embedded nulls . I know that I can just duplicate the file and