Hi,

On Wednesday 08 October 2014 16:18:17 meik michalke wrote:
> right now, the data editor doesn't visibly discriminate between NA, <NA> or
> "" in cells, they're all plain white, which can be a problem especially
> when dealing with strings. would it be much work to have those "empty"
> cells show some kind of greyed-out indicator wheter they are just empty
> strings ("") or really NA?

true, that's easy enough. Check current SVN.

(Now, next you'll want a more obvious method to differentiate between NA and 
"" while _entering_ strings...)
 
> related to this, i repeatedly had a problem with SPSS data sets where
> read.spss() did not trim string values, so they ended up like
> 
>   "value                     "
> 
> and you didn't see the spaces. i have no idea yet how to solve this nicely
> (meaning: make it visible), but it's an awful trap if you're wondering why
> the hell your script doesn't find a match for "value".

Well, that's more difficult, indeed. One option would be showing all strings 
quoted, but I'd say that's not without potential for confusion, either...

Regards
Thomas

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