For R, suggest using fread from data.table

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For R, suggest using fread from data.table

demetrios1 opened this issue 4 years ago · 4 comments

Seeing how big this file is, I think data.table::fread('https://storage.googleapis.com/covid19-open-data/v2/main.csv', na.strings = c("", "NA", "#N/A")) may be more appropriate than read.csv for the R-documentation!

Answer 1 · 2021-02-08T22:12:45.000Z

@demetrios1 sorry for the late reply. This sounds like a great suggestion! Admittedly I'm not an expert in R. If you are open to it, we'd absolute accept a pull request to improve the documentation.

Do you know if the data.table::fread() function is able to handle gzipped files?

Answer 2 · 2021-02-11T20:01:24.000Z

hi @owahltinez . Thanks for getting back! I'm not sure if it can to be honest.

Answer 3 · 2021-03-25T18:36:40.000Z

@a27cheung will be looking into this as part of a big documentation update coming soon :-)

Answer 4 · 2021-03-31T02:19:36.000Z

Hi @demetrios1 - will get to this as soon! Apologies for the delay - we’re working on a presentation to a large group this week :)