[ARROW-12761] [R] Better error handling for write_to_raw

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.0.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/28503
• Assignee: Nicola Crane
• Reporter: Nicola Crane
• Created: 12/May/21 19:02
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:28
• Resolved: 04/Jun/21 15:53

Description

When I run this:

mt_array <- Array$create(mtcars)
write_to_raw(mt_array)

I get this error:

 Error: schema must be a "Schema" 

We should add a manual check of the type of the input that returns a more informative error message if the object is not a data.frame, RecordBatch or Table

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #10387