[ARROW-14697] [R] Improved print methods for Arrow tabulars

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Component/s: R
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/30237
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jonathan Keane
• Created: 12/Nov/21 15:37
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:41
• Resolved: 02/Jul/22 14:17

Description

Right now, we return the schema, but it would be better if we returned the head of the tabular object so that people could see what they are interacting with.

We don't need to get a deterministic head here, just some idea of what's there.

Issue Links

• duplicates: ARROW-16777 [R] printing data in Table/RecordBatch print method