Jennifer (Jenny) Bryan

A specific request that appears in #81, at the very least, is to make it easy to set one column type for all columns. Done in readr via, e.g., `cols(.default...

It would be nice to specify col type for certain columns and allow others to be guessed. *Update: now implemented within the existing readxl style.*

It would be nice to know whether a col type was guessed or specified by user. Conceivably we would warn less (and maybe even coerce more aggressively?) if the type...

I've edited the title to reflect my current thinking: it would be good to align with readr re: explicit column specification (including skipping and guessing, which is already supported). But...

This is on the roadmap for my next several months. The plan is to do a major upgrade of the col spec here at the same time as adding similar...

https://github.com/tidyverse/tidyverse.org/pull/569 > What's coming next? > I won't go so far as to promise that 2022 is the year of readxl 😉. > But I can say that top priorities...

A little investigation on my machine (I'll have to come back to this) ``` r #set.seed(20190130) # generate example data # df Size: 75.227 MiB x Size: 94.359 MiB x...

@lionel- This is a juicy one for you and memtools 😁

Already covered by #278

Those cells really are empty, though. What data are you expecting to appear there?