[ARROW-16511] [R] Preserve schema metadata in write_dataset()

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 9.0.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/31874
• Assignee: Neal Richardson
• Reporter: Neal Richardson
• Created: 09/May/22 18:26
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:44
• Resolved: 09/May/22 19:48

Description

When we moved to using ExecPlans instead of Scanner, the metadata from the input table was dropped. We preserved the R metadata but not anything else. It turned out that sfarrow was relying on extra metadata, and this caused reverse dependency failures in the 8.0.0 release.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #13105