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Validation of logical fields in R #782

Open javh opened 2 months ago

javh commented 2 months ago

I merged in #731, which allows for NA as valid values in a logical column - consistent with the python package and the R rules for logical values.

However, this broke the logical validation routines because readr::read_tsv converts invalid values (not T, F, NA) to NA if a column is set to a logical type. Meaning, the validation routines won't see the invalid value, because validation happens on the loaded data frame. We'd have to let the whole column be set to a character type to keep the invalid values, which breaks other things.

I change the R unit tests to let this pass so master isn't broken. I'm making this issue to remind me to come back and try to figure out a proper fix later.