[ARROW-1325] [R] Bootstrap R bindings subproject

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.11.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/17360
• Assignee: Romain Francois
• Reporter: Clark Fitzgerald
• Created: 02/Aug/17 21:56
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:14
• Resolved: 07/Sep/18 21:54

Description

The R language was designed to perform "Columnar in memory analytics". R / Arrow bindings would be useful for:

• better compatibility between R and other languages / big data systems
• chunk-based data parallelism
• portable and efficient IO via Parquet

R has a C++ interface so the natural way to write these bindings is to leverage Arrow's C++ library as much as possible.
Feather provides a starting point: https://github.com/wesm/feather/tree/master/R.

This can serve as an umbrella JIRA for work on R related tasks.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1815
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2196
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2489