Rows with empty values are filtered out, even when '<empty field>' is selected

[bellma-lilly]

I am having a problem where empty items in my data are being filtered out, even when <empty fields> is selected. This appears to be caused in filter-data.R, line 475:

        if ("<empty field>" %in% values)
          values[which(values == "<empty field>")] <- ""

Because the value is <empty field> rather than <empty field>
I can make things work as expected with:

emptyField = as.character(as.tags("<empty field>")) 
if(emptyField %in% values)
           values[which(values == emptyField)] <- ""

But I suspect the "right" thing to do is make sure value is <empty field> instead. But I'm not sure how to do that.

[pvictor]

Thanks for reporting this, <empty field> was interpreted like HTML tag and escaped.
That's fixed if you re-install from GitHub, soon on CRAN.

Victor