westonpace commented on a change in pull request #9561: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/9561#discussion_r583987579
########## File path: r/R/dataset-partition.R ########## @@ -72,19 +77,22 @@ HivePartitioning$create <- dataset___HivePartitioning #' Because fields are named in the path segments, order of fields passed to #' `hive_partition()` does not matter. #' @param ... named list of [data types][data-type], passed to [schema()] +#' @param null_fallback character to be used in place of `NA` and `NULL` values +#' in columns that are being partitioned by. (default: +#' `"__HIVE_DEFAULT_PARTITION__"`) Review comment: I think that is probably opening a can of worms. If you're within the spark execution context then you're probably using spark to read/write parquet. If you're outside the spark execution context then those configuration variables are probably not set/present/available. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org