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Created October 17, 2014 03:01
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decompress bzfile and remove null string and read in fread
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fread-demo.R
fread(sprintf("bzcat %s | tr -d '\\000'", filename))
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May I ask why it would work if on Linux? (see stackoverflow answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25948777/extract-bz2-file-in-r#) I don't really understand what the regex does and what's the purpose...?

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