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Nic Crane updated ARROW-13421:
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Description:
In the R arrow package read_delim_arrow lacks the option to specify the decimal
marker (e.g. comma or point) in the parsing options.
This is a major inconvenience for data with a _point_ as a decimal marker
(european users) since the data is read in as astring which requires post-hoc
conversion of the string to double.
Request: Add a parsing option to set the decimal marker if that is possible.
(i.e. if the source data uses commas to demark the decimal place, this feature
request wants to be able to process such files as if a period had been used
instead)
was:
In the R arrow package read_delim_arrow lacks the option to specify the decimal
marker (e.g. comma or point) in the parsing options.
This is a major inconvenience for data with a _point_ as a decimal marker
(european users) since the data is read in as astring which requires post-hoc
conversion of the string to double.
Request: Add a parsing option to set the decimal marker if that is possible.
> [R] Add choice for decimal marker in read_delim_arrow (i.e. see
> readr::read_csv2)
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> Key: ARROW-13421
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-13421
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: R
> Affects Versions: 4.0.1
> Reporter: Daniel Paierl
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: R
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> In the R arrow package read_delim_arrow lacks the option to specify the
> decimal marker (e.g. comma or point) in the parsing options.
> This is a major inconvenience for data with a _point_ as a decimal marker
> (european users) since the data is read in as astring which requires post-hoc
> conversion of the string to double.
> Request: Add a parsing option to set the decimal marker if that is possible.
> (i.e. if the source data uses commas to demark the decimal place, this
> feature request wants to be able to process such files as if a period had
> been used instead)
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