[ARROW-14259] [R] converting from R vector to Array when the R vector is altrep

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 6.0.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/29836
• Assignee: Romain Francois
• Reporter: Romain Francois
• Created: 07/Oct/21 16:30
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:38
• Resolved: 11/Oct/21 13:54

Description

When we have an R vector that was created from an Array with altrep, and then we want to convert again to an Array, currently it materializes it, and it should not. Instead it should be grabbing the array from the internals -of the altrep object.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #11366