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Wes McKinney updated ARROW-3263:
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Summary: [R] Use R sentinel values for missingness in addition to bitmask
(was: Use R sentinel values for missingness in addition to bitmask)
> [R] Use R sentinel values for missingness in addition to bitmask
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> Key: ARROW-3263
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-3263
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Format
> Reporter: Gabriel Becker
> Priority: Major
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> R uses sentinal values to indicate missingness within Atomic vectors (read
> arrays in Arrow parlance, AFAIK).
> Currently according to [~wesmckinn], the current value in the array in memory
> is undefined if the bitmap indicating missingness is set to 1.
> This will force R to copy and modify data whenever adopting Arrow data which
> has missingness present as a native vector.
> If the value were written to the relevant sentinal values (INT_MIN for 32 bit
> integers, and NaN with payload 1954 for double precision floats) _in addition
> to_ the bit mask, then R would be able to use Arrow as intended while not
> breaking any other systems.
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