[ARROW-14228] [R] Allow for creation of nullable fields

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 6.0.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/18875
• Assignee: Matthew Peterson
• Reporter: Matthew Peterson
• Created: 05/Oct/21 14:59
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:38
• Resolved: 13/Oct/21 02:00

Description

The current implementation of the Field class does not allow for the creation of nullable fields - nullable is hard-coded as TRUE.

 

{{Field$create <- function(name, type, metadata) {}}
{{ {{ assert_that(inherits(name, "character"), length(name) == 1L)}}}}
{{ {{ type <- as_type(type, name)}}}}
{{ {{ assert_that(missing(metadata), msg = "metadata= is currently ignored")}}}}
{{ {{ Field__initialize(enc2utf8(name), type, TRUE)}}}}
{{ }}}

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #11324