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fread could read integers > 2^63 as character #1618

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mattdowle opened this issue Apr 1, 2016 · 0 comments · Fixed by #2344
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fread could read integers > 2^63 as character #1618

mattdowle opened this issue Apr 1, 2016 · 0 comments · Fixed by #2344
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Integers greater than 19 digits (the max for int64) could be read as character rather than double, to preserve the precision.
As highlighted here : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32339636/long-numbers-as-a-character-string
@mattdowle mattdowle changed the title fread should read numbers fread could read integers > 2^63 as character Apr 1, 2016
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@mattdowle mattdowle added this to the v1.10.6 milestone Sep 8, 2017
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Added a test case for reading large integer Rdatatable/data.table
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