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mrdwab / koboloadeR

KoBo Toolbox offers a convenient way to collect data using web and mobile forms. This package facilitates the retrieval of data entered using these tools using the KoBo Toolbox API (v1).
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Name too long error for some datasets (using Windows) #4

Open mrdwab opened 8 years ago

mrdwab commented 8 years ago

Getting an error message on Windows:

Error in file.info(input) : 
  file name conversion problem -- name too long?
mrdwab commented 8 years ago

This seems to be related to fread, because I don't get the error when reading in the data with any other functions (read.csv, read_csv, for example).

I was able to get it working by writing the binary output to a csv tempfile and then reading that back in with fread, but I'm not sure if there's a better way. Not sure if to raise an issue yet with @arunsrinivasan

mrdwab commented 8 years ago

Not closing this issue yet, but have not been having any problems since https://github.com/mrdwab/koboloadeR/commit/1005087713439cd9e6fc39e4221c28e7978587e5. Seems silly to have to resort to read_csv, but on the other hand, read_csv automatically parses the time columns in the dataset too, which seems to be a nice feature.