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fread does not have an option to solve unzipping problems with zip ill-formatted name files in Windows #5237

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As per my post in SO, fread cannot import and unzip the following URL:

dt <- fread("https://www.portaltransparencia.gov.br/download-de-dados/despesas-execucao/202001")

The work around was to read the url imposing mode = "wb" :
download.file("https://www.portaltransparencia.gov.br/download-de-dados/despesas-execucao/202001" , destfile = "test_file.zip" , mode = "wb")

unzip("test_file.zip", exdir = "."

It would be nice if fread provide an option to deal with cases like this.

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