# How to read a table with missing values using CSV?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-read-a-table-with-missing-values-using-csv/7556
**Category:** Data
**Tags:** package, data
**Created:** [December 6, 2017, 8:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-read-a-table-with-missing-values-using-csv/7556 "2017-12-06T08:03:40Z")
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### Author: ![nalimilan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nalimilan/32/147_2.png) [@nalimilan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nalimilan)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2017, 8:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-read-a-table-with-missing-values-using-csv/7556/2 "2017-12-06T08:35:10Z")

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Yeah, that’s a known problem due to the fact that no missing values appear in the first rows which are used to detect column types. The package will likely be improved soon, but for now you can work around this by specifying the element type of the offending columns manually with the `types` argument. Of course you can also continue using `readtable`, it will continue to work until the new major release.

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