问题
I have tab-delimited tables in text files where all lines end with \r\r\n
(0x0D 0x0D 0x0A
). If I try to read such file with fread()
, it says
Line ending is \r\r\n. R's download.file() appears to add the extra \r in text mode on Windows. Please download again in binary mode (mode='wb') which might be faster too. Alternatively, pass the URL directly to fread and it will download the file in binary mode for you.
but I am not downloading these files, I already have them.
So far I came to the solution which first reads the file with read.table()
(it treats \r\r\n
combination as a single end-of-line character), then converts resulting data.frame
by data.table()
:
mydt <- data.table(read.table(myfilename, header = T, sep = '\t', fill = T))
but I am wondering if there's any way to avoid slow read.table()
and use fast fread()
instead.
回答1:
I suggest using the GNU utility tr
to get rid of those unnecessary \r
characters. e.g.
cat("a,b,c\r\r\n1, 2, 3\r\r\n4, 5, 6", file = "test.csv")
fread("test.csv")
## Error in fread("test.csv") :
## Line ending is \r\r\n. R's download.file() appears to add the extra \r in text mode on Windows. Please download again in binary mode (mode='wb') which might be faster too. Alternatively, pass the URL directly to fread and it will download the file in binary mode for you.
system("tr -d '\r' < test.csv > test2.csv")
fread("test2.csv")
## a b c
## 1: 1 2 3
## 2: 4 5 6
If you are using Windows and do not have the tr
utility, you can get it here.
Added:
I did some comparisons of three methods, using a 100,000 x 5 sample cvs dataset.
OPcsv
is the "slow"read.table
methodfreadScan
is a method that discards the extra\r
characters in pure Rfreadtr
calls GNUtr
through the shell usingfread()
directly.
The third method is by far the fastest.
# create a 100,000 x 5 sample dataset with lines ending in \r\r\n
delim <- "\r\r\n"
sample.txt <- paste0("a, b, c, d, e", delim)
for (i in 1:100000) {
sample.txt <- paste0(sample.txt,
paste(round(runif(5)*100), collapse = ","),
delim)
}
cat(sample.txt, file = "sample.csv")
# function that translates the extra \r characters in R only
fread2 <- function(filename) {
tmp <- scan(file = filename, what = "character", quiet = TRUE)
# remove empty lines caused by \r
tmp <- tmp[tmp != ""]
# paste lines back together together with \n character
tmp <- paste(tmp, collapse = "\n")
fread(tmp)
}
# OP function using read.csv that is slow
readcsvMethod <- function(myfilename)
data.table(read.table(myfilename, header = TRUE, sep = ',', fill = TRUE))
require(microbenchmark)
microbenchmark(OPcsv = readcsvMethod("sample.csv"),
freadScan = fread2("sample.csv"),
freadtr = fread("tr -d \'\\r\' < sample.csv"),
unit = "relative")
## Unit: relative
## expr min lq mean median uq max neval
## OPcsv 1.331462 1.336524 1.340037 1.365397 1.366041 1.249223 100
## freadScan 1.532169 1.581195 1.624354 1.673691 1.676596 1.355434 100
## freadtr 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 100
来源:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33339656/fread-reading-table-with-r-r-n-as-newline-symbol