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Is there a reason why write_rds() doesn't include/pass the ascii param? #1270
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Unlike saveRDS() in base R, write_rds() includes no option for writing in ASCII rather than in binary. Is there a reason why that was left out? In my particular use case having the option for ascii writing using the more standardized readr functions would be nice.
(wrote RDA rather than RDS for some reason, amended)
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[-]Is there a reason why `write_rda()` doesn't include/pass the `ascii` param?[/-][+]Is there a reason why `write_rds()` doesn't include/pass the `ascii` param?[/+]jimhester commentedon Aug 16, 2021
Thanks for opening the issue, I added a
textargument towrite_rds(), which is analogous to theasciiargument insaveRDS.jmobrien commentedon Aug 17, 2021
Great! Noticed something else last week related to this--in
saveRDS(),ascii=TRUE(or, here,text=TRUE) drops any tagged NA's that were loaded/created byhaven. Binary saves work just fine.I assume there's nothing to be done about that, but since it's a variation in behavior with relevance to other tidyverse packages, I thought it was worth mentioning in case that's the sort of thing the team wants to document.
(For what it's worth, nothing in the docs of either
saveRDS()orsave()would clearly suggest this behavior either)Add `text` argument to write_rds