Is there a reason why write_rds() doesn't include/pass the ascii param?

[jmobrien]

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)

[jimhester]

Thanks for opening the issue, I added a text argument to write_rds(), which is analogous to the ascii argument in saveRDS.

[jmobrien]

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 by haven. 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() or save() would clearly suggest this behavior either)