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Weston Pace commented on ARROW-13887:
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> This implies we cannot rely on capturing the C++ error message and offering a
> more informative option in R as sometimes the error might not be triggered
> (in the case of a CSV where all the columns are strings / characters).
>
> The solution might be to somehow assess whether the CSV file has headers or
> not - which I do not think it is possible.
I agree this case is probably inevitable. I'm not sure we should stress too
much about it. FYI, in pandas:
{noformat}
>>> x = "books,authors\ncirce,miller"
>>> pd.read_csv(io.StringIO(x))
books authors
0 circe miller
>>> pd.read_csv(io.StringIO(x), names=['books', 'authors'])
books authors
0 books authors
1 circe miller
{noformat}
Pandas' read_csv method offers up this long, complicated parameter as a
solution:
{noformat}
headerint, list of int, default ‘infer’
Row number(s) to use as the column names, and the start of the data.
Default behavior is to infer the column names: if no names are passed the
behavior is identical to header=0 and column names are inferred from the first
line of the file, if column names are passed explicitly then the behavior is
identical to header=None. Explicitly pass header=0 to be able to replace
existing names. The header can be a list of integers that specify row locations
for a multi-index on the columns e.g. [0,1,3]. Intervening rows that are not
specified will be skipped (e.g. 2 in this example is skipped). Note that this
parameter ignores commented lines and empty lines if skip_blank_lines=True, so
header=0 denotes the first line of data rather than the first line of the file.
{noformat}
> [R] Capture error produced when reading in CSV file with headers and using a
> schema, and add suggestion
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: ARROW-13887
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-13887
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: R
> Reporter: Nicola Crane
> Assignee: Dragoș Moldovan-Grünfeld
> Priority: Major
> Labels: good-first-issue
> Fix For: 7.0.0
>
>
> When reading in a CSV with headers, and also using a schema, we get an error
> as the code tries to read in the header as a line of data.
> {code:java}
> share_data <- tibble::tibble(
> company = c("AMZN", "GOOG", "BKNG", "TSLA"),
> price = c(3463.12, 2884.38, 2300.46, 732.39)
> )
> readr::write_csv(share_data, file = "share_data.csv")
> share_schema <- schema(
> company = utf8(),
> price = float64()
> )
> read_csv_arrow("share_data.csv", schema = share_schema)
> {code}
> {code:java}
> Error: Invalid: In CSV column #1: CSV conversion error to double: invalid
> value 'price'
> /home/nic2/arrow/cpp/src/arrow/csv/converter.cc:492 decoder_.Decode(data,
> size, quoted, &value)
> /home/nic2/arrow/cpp/src/arrow/csv/parser.h:84 status
> /home/nic2/arrow/cpp/src/arrow/csv/converter.cc:496
> parser.VisitColumn(col_index, visit) {code}
> The correct thing here would have been for the user to supply the argument
> {{skip=1}} to {{read_csv_arrow()}} but this is not immediately obvious from
> the error message returned from C++. We should capture the error and instead
> supply our own error message using {{rlang::abort}} which informs the user of
> the error and then suggests what they can do to prevent it.
>
> For similar examples (and their associated PRs) see
> {color:#1d1c1d}ARROW-11766, and ARROW-12791{color}
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