[ARROW-18216] [R] Better error message when creating an array from decimals

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: R
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/33402
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Nicola Crane
• Created: 01/Nov/22 23:44
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:58

Description

We should first check why this doesn't work, and if we can instead fix the problem instead of the error message

> ChunkedArray$create(c(1.4, 525.5), type = decimal(precision = 1, scale = 3))
Error: NotImplemented: Extend