{
  "id": 52934,
  "title": "R version",
  "url": "/competitions/talkingdata-adtracking-fraud-detection/discussion/52934",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2018-03-25T02:32:07.651380Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 15,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>What version of R or RStudio are the teams using for this project? Is it recommended to upgrade to a version of R that is 3.4.0 or higher?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "302931",
      "postDate": "03/25/2018 02:32:07",
      "content": "<p>What version of R or RStudio are the teams using for this project? Is it recommended to upgrade to a version of R that is 3.4.0 or higher?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "What version of R or RStudio are the teams using for this project? Is it recommended to upgrade to a version of R that is 3.4.0 or higher?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "303041",
      "postDate": "03/25/2018 10:38:41",
      "content": "<p>I'm using 3.3.2 on my laptop and 3.4.2 on Kaggle kernels, both without any problem.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I'm using 3.3.2 on my laptop and 3.4.2 on Kaggle kernels, both without any problem.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "303130",
      "postDate": "03/25/2018 15:38:42",
      "content": "<p>what command did you use in order to load the dataset into R? did you use data.table or read.csv?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "what command did you use in order to load the dataset into R? did you use data.table or read.csv?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "303132",
      "postDate": "03/25/2018 15:40:26",
      "content": "<p>The reason I am asking is because I am unable to load the data into RStudio. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "The reason I am asking is because I am unable to load the data into RStudio.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "303133",
      "postDate": "03/25/2018 15:42:34",
      "content": "<p>I am using 3.3.3 on my Mac. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I am using 3.3.3 on my Mac.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "303137",
      "postDate": "03/25/2018 15:45:08",
      "content": "<p>I'm using data.table:</p>\n\n<pre><code>train &lt;- fread(\"./data/train.csv\",\n           showProgress = FALSE,\n           nrows = trn)\n</code></pre>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I'm using data.table:\n\n    train &lt;- fread(\"./data/train.csv\",\n               showProgress = FALSE,\n               nrows = trn)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "303144",
      "postDate": "03/25/2018 16:03:44",
      "content": "<p>I'm using 3.4.4 on my Windows laptop and 3.4.2 on Kaggle kernels. I'm using fread from data.table to load data and it's working perfectly fine. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I'm using 3.4.4 on my Windows laptop and 3.4.2 on Kaggle kernels. I'm using fread from data.table to load data and it's working perfectly fine.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "303146",
      "postDate": "03/25/2018 16:04:54",
      "content": "<p>What's the error message?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "What's the error message?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "303207",
      "postDate": "03/25/2018 18:47:13",
      "content": "<p>It takes very long to load and I get a warning message saying In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote,  :\n  line 1 appears to contain embedded nulls</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "It takes very long to load and I get a warning message saying In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote,  :\n  line 1 appears to contain embedded nulls",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "303210",
      "postDate": "03/25/2018 18:49:53",
      "content": "<p>embedded nul in string: '\\xdf\\\\xd1ubw\\xd7A\\003\\xa1\\026]\\xd75\\x90\\x89\\xe0X\\xd0ujw\\xe3\\b^v\\xc5\\xd7%\\xd9t%'\\x83s\\x9c\\a\\024ا\\xc6:\\xf1G\\x91\\xebf\\xa0\\xebde\\xca\\xf7\\xca\\b`\\xd1\\v\\xdc\\xc2q\\xa3\\020a%%\\xf8\\x87\\xe5\\xc2\\xd0J\\006\\xbeu](v\\xa0\\x</p>\n\n<p>That is part of the error message I get when using fread.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "embedded nul in string: '\\xdf\\\\\\xd1ubw\\xd7A\\003\\xa1\\026]\\xd75\\x90\\x89\\xe0X\\xd0ujw\\xe3\\b^v\\xc5\\xd7%\\xd9t%'\\x83s\\x9c\\a\\024ا\\xc6:\\xf1G\\x91\\xebf\\xa0\\xebde\\xca\\xf7\\xca\\b`\\xd1\\v\\xdc\\xc2q\\xa3\\020a%%\\xf8\\x87\\xe5\\xc2\\xd0J\\006\\xbeu](v\\xa0\\x\n\nThat is part of the error message I get when using fread.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "303223",
      "postDate": "03/25/2018 19:38:38",
      "content": "<p>Have you tried to check the file integrity after unzipped?? </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Have you tried to check the file integrity after unzipped??",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "303238",
      "postDate": "03/25/2018 20:42:54",
      "content": "<p>May I know how to do that?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "May I know how to do that?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "303241",
      "postDate": "03/25/2018 20:47:17",
      "content": "<p>I got it thanks. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I got it thanks.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "303261",
      "postDate": "03/25/2018 21:44:10",
      "content": "<p>Can you post the exact script used to read data and error message? I think most people are using fread and haven't faced any issue.  Try following following script for 1000 rows:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<pre><code>train &lt;- fread(\"train.csv\", verbose=TRUE, showProgress = TRUE, nrows=1000)\n</code></pre>\n</blockquote>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Can you post the exact script used to read data and error message? I think most people are using fread and haven't faced any issue.  Try following following script for 1000 rows:\n\n&gt;     train &lt;- fread(\"train.csv\", verbose=TRUE, showProgress = TRUE, nrows=1000)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "303972",
      "postDate": "03/26/2018 20:40:57",
      "content": "<p>R 3.4.4 + data.table works perfectly.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "R 3.4.4 + data.table works perfectly.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "303999",
      "postDate": "03/26/2018 21:31:21",
      "content": "<p>I got it thanks. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I got it thanks.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 303041,
      "author_name": "tfrmarques",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/25/2018 10:38:41",
      "content": "<p>I'm using 3.3.2 on my laptop and 3.4.2 on Kaggle kernels, both without any problem.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 303130,
      "author_name": "yaduchittampalli",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/25/2018 15:38:42",
      "content": "<p>what command did you use in order to load the dataset into R? did you use data.table or read.csv?</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 303132,
      "author_name": "yaduchittampalli",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/25/2018 15:40:26",
      "content": "<p>The reason I am asking is because I am unable to load the data into RStudio. </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 303146,
          "author_name": "pranav84",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/25/2018 16:04:54",
          "content": "<p>What's the error message?</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 303207,
          "author_name": "yaduchittampalli",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/25/2018 18:47:13",
          "content": "<p>It takes very long to load and I get a warning message saying In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote,  :\n  line 1 appears to contain embedded nulls</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 303261,
          "author_name": "pranav84",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/25/2018 21:44:10",
          "content": "<p>Can you post the exact script used to read data and error message? I think most people are using fread and haven't faced any issue.  Try following following script for 1000 rows:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<pre><code>train &lt;- fread(\"train.csv\", verbose=TRUE, showProgress = TRUE, nrows=1000)\n</code></pre>\n</blockquote>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 303999,
          "author_name": "yaduchittampalli",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/26/2018 21:31:21",
          "content": "<p>I got it thanks. </p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 303133,
      "author_name": "yaduchittampalli",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/25/2018 15:42:34",
      "content": "<p>I am using 3.3.3 on my Mac. </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 303137,
      "author_name": "tfrmarques",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/25/2018 15:45:08",
      "content": "<p>I'm using data.table:</p>\n\n<pre><code>train &lt;- fread(\"./data/train.csv\",\n           showProgress = FALSE,\n           nrows = trn)\n</code></pre>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 303210,
          "author_name": "yaduchittampalli",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/25/2018 18:49:53",
          "content": "<p>embedded nul in string: '\\xdf\\\\xd1ubw\\xd7A\\003\\xa1\\026]\\xd75\\x90\\x89\\xe0X\\xd0ujw\\xe3\\b^v\\xc5\\xd7%\\xd9t%'\\x83s\\x9c\\a\\024ا\\xc6:\\xf1G\\x91\\xebf\\xa0\\xebde\\xca\\xf7\\xca\\b`\\xd1\\v\\xdc\\xc2q\\xa3\\020a%%\\xf8\\x87\\xe5\\xc2\\xd0J\\006\\xbeu](v\\xa0\\x</p>\n\n<p>That is part of the error message I get when using fread.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 303223,
          "author_name": "tfrmarques",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/25/2018 19:38:38",
          "content": "<p>Have you tried to check the file integrity after unzipped?? </p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 303238,
          "author_name": "yaduchittampalli",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/25/2018 20:42:54",
          "content": "<p>May I know how to do that?</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 303241,
          "author_name": "yaduchittampalli",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/25/2018 20:47:17",
          "content": "<p>I got it thanks. </p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 303144,
      "author_name": "pranav84",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/25/2018 16:03:44",
      "content": "<p>I'm using 3.4.4 on my Windows laptop and 3.4.2 on Kaggle kernels. I'm using fread from data.table to load data and it's working perfectly fine. </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 303972,
      "author_name": "kailex",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/26/2018 20:40:57",
      "content": "<p>R 3.4.4 + data.table works perfectly.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
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    "302931": "What version of R or RStudio are the teams using for this project? Is it recommended to upgrade to a version of R that is 3.4.0 or higher?",
    "303041": "I'm using 3.3.2 on my laptop and 3.4.2 on Kaggle kernels, both without any problem.",
    "303130": "what command did you use in order to load the dataset into R? did you use data.table or read.csv?",
    "303132": "The reason I am asking is because I am unable to load the data into RStudio.",
    "303133": "I am using 3.3.3 on my Mac.",
    "303137": "I'm using data.table:\n\n    train &lt;- fread(\"./data/train.csv\",\n               showProgress = FALSE,\n               nrows = trn)",
    "303144": "I'm using 3.4.4 on my Windows laptop and 3.4.2 on Kaggle kernels. I'm using fread from data.table to load data and it's working perfectly fine.",
    "303146": "What's the error message?",
    "303207": "It takes very long to load and I get a warning message saying In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote,  :\n  line 1 appears to contain embedded nulls",
    "303210": "embedded nul in string: '\\xdf\\\\\\xd1ubw\\xd7A\\003\\xa1\\026]\\xd75\\x90\\x89\\xe0X\\xd0ujw\\xe3\\b^v\\xc5\\xd7%\\xd9t%'\\x83s\\x9c\\a\\024ا\\xc6:\\xf1G\\x91\\xebf\\xa0\\xebde\\xca\\xf7\\xca\\b`\\xd1\\v\\xdc\\xc2q\\xa3\\020a%%\\xf8\\x87\\xe5\\xc2\\xd0J\\006\\xbeu](v\\xa0\\x\n\nThat is part of the error message I get when using fread.",
    "303223": "Have you tried to check the file integrity after unzipped??",
    "303238": "May I know how to do that?",
    "303241": "I got it thanks.",
    "303261": "Can you post the exact script used to read data and error message? I think most people are using fread and haven't faced any issue.  Try following following script for 1000 rows:\n\n&gt;     train &lt;- fread(\"train.csv\", verbose=TRUE, showProgress = TRUE, nrows=1000)",
    "303972": "R 3.4.4 + data.table works perfectly.",
    "303999": "I got it thanks."
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