See #2214
For a file like this:
the B column should be understood as c("foo", NA, ""), not c("foo", "", "") or c("foo", NA, NA).
The proposed mechanism is the following: make 2 "string" types. The first type (default) reads empty fields as empty strings. However this type fails to recognize field "" as valid input and instead type-bumps. The second type treats empty field as NA and "" as an empty string.
See #2214
For a file like this:
the B column should be understood as
c("foo", NA, ""), notc("foo", "", "")orc("foo", NA, NA).The proposed mechanism is the following: make 2 "string" types. The first type (default) reads empty fields as empty strings. However this type fails to recognize field
""as valid input and instead type-bumps. The second type treats empty field as NA and""as an empty string.