There is CSVY, which lets you set a delimiter, schema, column types, etc. and has libraries in many languages and is natively supported in R. Also is backward

There is CSVY, which lets you set a delimiter, schema, column types, etc. and has libraries in many languages and is natively supported in R. Also is backwards-compatible with most CSV parsers. https://github.com/leeper/csvy https://github.com/leeper/csvy