Any way to force fread() of data.table not to stop on empty lines?

Question

(question is not relevant anymore, since new version of data.table of 25-NOV-2016 - see accepted answer below)

So, I have a table with some empty lines

Answer 1

Version 1.9.8 of data.table, released 25-NOV-2016, has a new blank.lines.skip option to skip blank lines.

text <- "1,a\n\n2,b\n3,c\n4,a\n\n5,b\n\n6,c"

library(data.table)
fread(text)
##    V1 V2
## 1:  2  b
## 2:  3  c
## 3:  4  a
## Warning message:
## In fread("1,a\n\n2,b\n3,c\n4,a\n\n5,b\n\n6,c") :
##   Stopped reading at empty line 6 but text exists afterwards (discarded): 5,b

fread(text, blank.lines.skip=TRUE)
##    V1 V2
## 1:  1  a
## 2:  2  b
## 3:  3  c
## 4:  4  a
## 5:  5  b
## 6:  6  c