[ARROW-12105] [R] Replace vars_select, vars_rename with eval_select, eval_rename

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 10.0.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/18578
• Assignee: Nicola Crane
• Reporter: Ian Cook
• Created: 26/Mar/21 20:54
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:24
• Resolved: 14/Oct/22 14:23

Description

The tidyselect vars_select and vars_rename functions are on their way to being deprecated. Switch to using the newer eval_select and eval_rename functions. This is required to use the where() selection helper (ARROW-12778) Unfortunately this is not a trivial task.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: ARROW-12778 [R] Support tidyselect where() selection helper in dplyr verbs
• is related to: ARROW-17698 [R] Implement use of `where()` inside `across()
• is related to: ARROW-18043 [R] Properly instantiate empty arrays of extension types in Table__from_schema
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #14371