[R-Forge #4649] fread files with more than 4 billion rows

[arunsrinivasan]

Submitted by: Roby Joehanes; Assigned to: Nobody; R-Forge link

I have a huge table with 4+ billion rows. fread has an integer overflow problem and only read about 73M rows.

[mattdowle]

This will need data.table itself to support more than 2 billion rows.
But the integer overflow when counting rows should be caught in the meantime.

[mattdowle]

The integer overflow at 2bn is now caught by e15facd.
Pushing supporting for >2bn rows to v1.9.8