[ARROW-16239] [R] $columns on Table and RB should be named

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 7.0.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: good-first-issue
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/31635

Language

R

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Will Jones
• Created: 19/Apr/22 18:02
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:42

Description

Currently, $columns method returns columns as a list without names. It would be nice if they were named instead, similar to as.list on a data.frame.

> library(arrow)
> names(record_batch(x = 1, y = 'a')$columns)
NULL
> names(arrow_table(x = 1, y = 'a')$columns)
NULL
> as.list(data.frame(x = 1, y = 'a'))
$x
[1] 1

$y
[1] "a"