[ARROW-13435] [R] Add function arrow_table() as alias for Table$create()

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 6.0.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: good-first-issue pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/29102
• Assignee: Nicola Crane
• Reporter: Ian Cook
• Created: 22/Jul/21 15:46
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:33
• Resolved: 19/Oct/21 14:16

Description

In the arrow R package, there is a function record_batch() that is an alias for RecordBatch$create(). It would be nice to have a similar friendly alias for the even more commonly used Table$create(). Obviously we can't use table() for this, but how about arrow_table()?

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #11459