'Embedded nul in string' error when importing csv with fread

Question

I have a large file (3.5G) that I\'m trying to import using data.table::fread.

It was originally created from an rpt file that was opened as text and sa

Answer 1

We can remove the null terminators on the command line using something like:

sed 's/\\0//g' mycsv.csv > mycsv.csv

Or as suggested by @marbel, fread allows you to pass the sed call inside the text. Such as:

fread("sed 's/\\0//g' mycsv.csv")