Why rank doesn't work for sparse matrices?

Internals & Design
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The following throws an error:

mat = sparse([1 0 0; 0 1 0; 0 0 1])
rank(mat)

The error:

ERROR: MethodError: no method matching svdvals!(::SparseMatrixCSC{Float64,Int64})

2

Is this intentional? I did not find any open issues in Github requesting this so I’m about to create one…

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https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/20409