blank.lines.skip won't work when the top lines is empty

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documentation fread

I want to keep the total line number. Following code should return 3 rows, but it always return 1 row

file2 <- tempfile()
writeLines(c("", "", NA), file2)
data.table::fread(file2, blank.lines.skip = FALSE)

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