[jira] [Created] (ARROW-11478) [R] Consider ways to make arrow.skip_nul option more user-friendly

["Ian Cook (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Ian Cook created ARROW-11478:
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             Summary: [R] Consider ways to make arrow.skip_nul option more user-friendly
                 Key: ARROW-11478
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-11478
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: R
    Affects Versions: 3.0.0
            Reporter: Ian Cook
            Assignee: Ian Cook
             Fix For: 4.0.0


In Arrow 3.0.0, the {{arrow.skip_nul}} option effectively defaults to {{FALSE}} for consistency with {{base::readLines}} and {{base::scan}}.

If the user keeps this default option value, then conversion of string data containing embedded nuls causes an error with a message like:
{code:java}
embedded nul in string: '\0' {code}
If the user sets the option to {{TRUE}}, then no error occurs, but this warning is issued:
{code:java}
Stripping '\0' (nul) from character vector {code}
Consider whether we should:
 # Keep this all as it is
 # Change the default option value to {{TRUE}}
 # Keep the default option value as it is, but catch the error and re-throw it with a more actionable message that tells the user how to set the option



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