'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

If you are seeing NUL (x00) characters in an ASCII file you can do this: data.table::fread(text = readLines(pathIn, skipNul = T), ...)