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

If anyone else is having a similar problem, I've noticed that data.table 1.10.4 (the current 2017 release I'm using) seems to produce empty line errors with some files if you don't explicitly state:

'strip.white = FALSE'

I was looking at what were obviously line errors in ~350 files I was trying to import. Some lines were broken across two rows in the originals and, since they contained different forms of information, fread was warning of class coercion issues for some of the columns. But I was simultaneously getting 'empty line' errors as well for almost every file, on different lines. I manually checked those in notepad++. Many times. There were no empty lines and there were remaining lines; lots of them. Tried working through the import arguments and disabling specifically strip.white removed the empty line warnings.