Le Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 08:08:08PM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : > On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 06:58:12PM +0100, Steffen Möller wrote: > > So, "NA" indeed means like "hey, I checked but this was not found". This > > information should not be lost. > > > > An empty entry, as if from a template, does not have the same meaning. > > If NA (which is how R expects it and I found it likely to be easier to > > parse) or N/A - I would not be bother to do all these changes and would > > just leave it. Indeed, on the Excel sheet I am using N/A. > > I definitely bother / veto agains renaming the now implemented 'NA' to > simply 'N/A' since there is no advantage at all. However, I can follow > the argument of Andrius that and empty string "" (not just nothing as in > our empty boilerplate) could serve the given purpose.
Hi all, how about YAML's null value for entries for which it was confirmed that the information does not exist ? Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy
