Ian Cook created ARROW-11478:
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Summary: [R] Consider ways to make arrow.skip_nul option more
user-friendly
Key: ARROW-11478
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-11478
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: R
Affects Versions: 3.0.0
Reporter: Ian Cook
Assignee: Ian Cook
Fix For: 4.0.0
In Arrow 3.0.0, the {{arrow.skip_nul}} option effectively defaults to {{FALSE}}
for consistency with {{base::readLines}} and {{base::scan}}.
If the user keeps this default option value, then conversion of string data
containing embedded nuls causes an error with a message like:
{code:java}
embedded nul in string: '\0' {code}
If the user sets the option to {{TRUE}}, then no error occurs, but this warning
is issued:
{code:java}
Stripping '\0' (nul) from character vector {code}
Consider whether we should:
# Keep this all as it is
# Change the default option value to {{TRUE}}
# Keep the default option value as it is, but catch the error and re-throw it
with a more actionable message that tells the user how to set the option
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