[ARROW-15470] [R] Allows user to specify string to be used for missing data when writing CSV dataset

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 11.0.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/30946
• Assignee: Will Jones
• Reporter: Will Jones
• Created: 26/Jan/22 17:58
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:37
• Resolved: 09/Jan/23 12:19

Description

The ability to select the string to be used for missing data was implemented for the CSV Writer in ARROW-14903 and as David Li points out below, is available, so I think we just need to hook it up on the R side.

This requires the values passed in as the "na" argument to be instead passed through to "null_strings", similarly to what has been done with "skip" and "skip_rows" in ARROW-15743.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #14679