Column of explicitly quoted empty strings parsed as logical NA vector
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Start by reproducing the issue with the supplied test.csv contents and data.table::fread("test.tsv"), then trace the input parsing path that determines the column type. Done means a column containing only explicitly quoted empty strings is parsed as a character vector of empty strings rather than a logical vector of NA values, with regression coverage for this case.
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Description
Let test.csv be the file with contents
col
""
""
""
This is unambiguously a column of empty strings, yet data.table::fread("test.tsv") parses this as a logical class vector with NA values (and, maybe not unexpectedly, no setting of na.strings changes this since the column isn't getting parsed as strings in the first place). As long as one non-empty string is added into the column, e.g.
col
hotdog
""
""
""
then data.table::fread("test.tsv") correctly identifies this as a string column and parses it into a character vector with one non-empty, 3 empty, and 0 NA values.
Package data.table version 1.14.2, running on RedHat linux, with R version 3.6.0.
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