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Nic Crane edited comment on ARROW-13421 at 7/21/21, 10:59 AM: -------------------------------------------------------------- Hi [~Ruser], thanks for reporting this! Would you be able to provide a short reproducible example of what you're trying to do? I tried writing my own example based on the description above, but the data was read in as a double and not a string. {code:r} set.seed(1) # create a table of values tbl <- tibble::tibble(x = rnorm(5)) tbl # A tibble: 5 x 1 # x # <dbl> # 1 -0.626 # 2 0.184 # 3 -0.836 # 4 1.60 # 5 0.330 # create file to write to tf <- tempfile() # write table to file write.table(tbl, tf , sep = "\t", row.names = FALSE) # read back in tab <- read_delim_arrow(tf, delim = "\t") # display results tab # A tibble: 5 x 1 # x # <dbl> # 1 -0.626 # 2 0.184 # 3 -0.836 # 4 1.60 # 5 0.330 # {code} was (Author: thisisnic): Hi [~Ruser], thanks for reporting this! Would you be able to provide a short reproducible example of what you're trying to do? I tried writing my own example based on the description above, but the data was read in as a double and not a string. {code:r} set.seed(1) # create a table of value tbl <- tibble::tibble(x = rnorm(5)) tbl # A tibble: 5 x 1 # x # <dbl> # 1 -0.626 # 2 0.184 # 3 -0.836 # 4 1.60 # 5 0.330 # create file to write to tf <- tempfile() # write table to file write.table(tbl, tf , sep = "\t", row.names = FALSE) # read back in tab <- read_delim_arrow(tf, delim = "\t") # display results tab # A tibble: 5 x 1 # x # <dbl> # 1 -0.626 # 2 0.184 # 3 -0.836 # 4 1.60 # 5 0.330 # {code} > [R] Add choice for decimal marker in read_delim_arrow > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-13421 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-13421 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: R > Affects Versions: 4.0.1 > Reporter: Daniel Paierl > Priority: Minor > Labels: R > > In the R arrow package read_delim_arrow lacks the option to specify the > decimal marker (e.g. comma or point) in the parsing options. > This is a major inconvenience for data with a _point_ as a decimal marker > (european users) since the data is read in as astring which requires post-hoc > conversion of the string to double. > > Request: Add a parsing option to set the decimal marker if that is possible. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)