On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 4:14 PM <luke-tier...@uiowa.edu> wrote: > [...] > > Yes, it should be discarded. > > You can of course do what you like in code you keep to yourself. But > please do not distribute code that does this. via CRAN or any other > means. It will only create problems for those maintaining R. > > > After all, the NA is nothing but a tagged NaN. > > And we are now paying a price for what was, in hindsight, an > unfortunate decision. >
I (only now) understand that. That code is based on the R sources and (mind you) an almost identical one from package haven. Regardless, it was not the code I was trying to show, but the vignette: the end result, the functionality of the software. That is, automatically treat declared missing values as NAs, without users being required to explicitly deal with attributes. Now that I think about it, there might be a way to do this without tagging NAs, so back to square one. Best wishes, Adrian [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel