[ARROW-17054] [R] Creating an Array from an object bigger than 2^31 results in an Array of length 0

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 11.0.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/32362
• Assignee: Dewey Dunnington
• Reporter: Nicola Crane
• Created: 12/Jul/22 14:40
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:48
• Resolved: 14/Dec/22 16:35

Description

Apologies for the lack of proper reprex but it crashes my session when I try to make one.

I'm working on ARROW-16977 which is all about the reporting of object size having integer overflow issues, but this affects object creation.

library(arrow, warn.conflicts = TRUE)

# works - creates a huge array, hurrah
big_logical <- vector(mode = "logical", length = .Machine$integer.max)
big_logical_array <- Array$create(big_logical)

length(big_logical)
## [1] 2147483647
length(big_logical_array)
## [1] 2147483647

# creates an array of length 0, boo!
too_big <- vector(mode = "logical", length = .Machine$integer.max + 1) too_big_array <- Array$create(too_big)

length(too_big)
## [1] 2147483648
length(too_big_array)
## [1] 0
 

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #14929