[ARROW-3282] [R] initial R functionality

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.11.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/19621
• Assignee: Romain Francois
• Reporter: Romain Francois
• Created: 21/Sep/18 14:35
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:26
• Resolved: 06/Oct/18 08:54

Description

Wrapping C++ pointers to arrow objects as R6 classes holding an R external pointer. 

Factory functions for the metadata types, int32(), ...

Factory to create schemas and struct

Create Array, RecordBatch, Table from R vectors and data frames. initially only support integer (int32), numeric (float64) and raw (int8) vectors. 

Reading and Writing record batches and Table to files. 

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2596