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big_fread1

Read large text file

Read large text file by splitting lines.

big_fread1(file, every_nlines, .transform = identity,
  .combine = rbind_df, skip = 0, ..., print_timings = TRUE)

`file`	Path to file that you want to read.
`every_nlines`	Maximum number of lines in new file parts.
`.transform`	Function to transform each data frame corresponding to each part of the `file`. Default doesn't change anything.
`.combine`	Function to combine results (list of data frames).
`skip`	Number of lines to skip at the beginning of `file`.
`...`	Other arguments to be passed to data.table::fread, excepted `input`, `file`, `skip`, `col.names` and `showProgress`.
`print_timings`	Whether to print timings? Default is `TRUE`.

A data.frame by default; a data.table when data.table = TRUE.

Read Large Text Files

v0.2.4

GPL-3

Authors

Florian Privé [aut, cre]

Initial release

2021-04-10